Considering setting up my own Mastodon instance but before I decide, I'd like to know what kind of bandwidth & disk space people's instances are using.
#kudos to @yunohost for providing me an easy home server solution that is running flawlessly since a year on a #RaspberryPI and to the #YunoHost forums community: I had two minor issues with #paperlessNgx and @bookstack and I managed to solve them in less than 10 minutes. Also, I had to say that #BookStack looks very well crafted and may save my "work life" soon. These three projects I mentioned above deserve our contribution! 💗
A few months ago, I persuaded a client to abandon an external cloud system and use Nextcloud on their own server instead. Powered by FreeBSD and ZFS, it has already demonstrated its strengths on a couple of occasions (such as in the case of a snapshot rollback). This morning, they expressed the desire to abandon the various WhatsApp groups they use for coordination and to use a solution "all on their servers." I was inspired and quickly installed both an ejabberd and a Matrix server (Synapse) - which they will probably prefer, according to the latest news they sent me - on two FreeBSD jails.
Today, we have the awareness and experience of what it means to give our data to large companies, completely losing control over it. We have the tools, so why not use them?
And I'm really happy when someone like them, thanks to their willingness to try "new" solutions, realizes the alternatives to the colorful, advertised, warmly recommended (by salespeople) "proprietary" solutions.
I've been overwhelmed with the positive feedback from the community since last week's launch and have been trying to add projects as fast as the requests come in.
Two new features since launch: License details added to the project tiles and a "Recently Added" sort option for users to easily view projects added since their last visit.
Next feature on the list: RSS feed for newly added project notifications
It seems ludicrously easy to self-host. I just built one and started using it with my already-established nostr ID in less than half an hour.
Don't think I'll actually bother to self-host though. Little point unless I wanna customize it. You won't want to.
It's lovely, it's got the microblogging stuff on one column and reddit style communities on the other column and some kind of pay-by-lightning-for-media-hosting to fund itself.
And the Nostr thing where it's all just the same account as if I logged in with Snort or Iris is still really cool.
There are a lot of good coders building things over on Nostr. And it's all proper grass-roots stuff, not capital-funded and indebted.
It is not itself a crypto-scam, even if there are lots of crypto-scammers using it.
Hardest challenge they'll have there is figuring out how you can be both censorship resistant and also well moderated.
Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.
Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!
Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).
Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.
Does anyone know of a #FOSS or #opensource project that will #selfhost a #library card catalogue system? I'd like to start loaning out gear and items and such, including media and books. Could really benefit from a way to manage patrons and the contents of the catalogue.
I can finally respond to polls here again. After migrating to GoToSocial I had lost that possibility, but with the new release candidate that changes. This is another significant improvement. I really enjoy my self-hosted GoToSocial instance. :blobcatsip:
I had an idea last night about an awesome potential #Mastodon#Fediverse#ActivityPub capability to take #selfhost#selfhosting to the next level. Could a Mastodon (et al) server be "packaged" tightly enough that it could essentially act as an application on any desktop/laptop computer, or even mobile, so that you could truly "carry your Mastodon instance with you"? The biggest hurdle would be finding a way to ensure your domain name was transportable regardless of physical IP address. #AskFedi
This big of a foot gun can only be because of tremendous external pressure. Knowing that pressure exists, and can drive terrible strategic moves like this, is the real reason to migrate to #jellyfin.
The latest news (ft. @matrix and @plex), software updates and launches (ft. @doncow#Immich, #Paperless, #PiAlert, and others), a spotlight on #wgeasy, upcoming events, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @Jerry quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other admins who might not be familiar, I am discovering this too for the first time:
When you ‘Limit' a domain (under Federation—>Add new domain block) and then click on that domain in the list it brings you to the screen in the first picture.
You can then see which accounts have been organically “stored" (i think of it more like being "noticed”) by the server. I’m excited that @stonekettle is there! I miss him!
Keep your current handle, but look into #SelfHosting any #Fediverse instance. Keep your current #Mastodon and add on a unique experience that you control completely.
Hell, even #Pixelfed if you're really into pictures. F Instagram.
I don't like to force people to take on more complexity in their lives. We're all maxed out. But that said, if you want to take real control of your social media experience when it comes to Threads, defederation, or not, and you consider yourself the least bit comfortable with technology then there are some excellent, easy, and very affordable (like Netflix in the before days :)) ways to #selfhost your own Mastodon server. https://masto.host is the one I recommend.
After the initial setup there is very little else you will need to do. #Threads#Fediverse#Mastodon#Federation