Yesterday I moved my personal #email to #tutanota (after #selfhosting it for a few months). Such a smooth experience. Everything just works ™️. Not that I had any problems with my VPS and #mailinabox. Just decided I want more peace of mind. Plus it's way cheaper. 12 EUR per year? C'mon, I couldn't ask for a better offer 🤩
Small update on my custom #NAS project; Last week I officially factory reset the #Synology and have put it up for sale. Such a good feeling to finally be getting rid of that thing.
Last week I also got the #FractalDesign#PC case I had been waiting on a restock for, and I have transplanted the NAS over. Some final (SATA power) cables are expected to come in today so I can install the drives I used to have in the Synology. We're getting there!
Friends. It seems that in my new place, the ISP has all incoming ports blocked. This blows for several reasons, but they centralize on the fact that I self-host several services.
So what are my options? What are the most user-friendly and privacy-respecting ways to punch a hole and keep sharing my stuff with the WAN?
Big Tech is trying to monopolize all communication and collaboration tools on the planet. This would be terrible for our future. The Open Source community needs to prevent this.
As I reach my six month mark of being on the #fediverse, I can say that I have become quite happy not only #selfhosting everything myself but actually having social interactions with people here.
Yes, my "views" are not as high as it would have been other places but the responses I get are much more frequent.
I want to also personally thank @jerry over at #infosec#exchange for nurturing my love for FOSS and self hosting. His taking time out of his schedule to help me solve my first issue with #mastodon kept me here and I'm here to stay.
Were it not for the reliance on Google's #Cloud services and Google refusing to make them #GDPR & #BDSG - compliant which they only could if they were to enable [#SelfHosting due to #CloudAct] these would've flooded the markets outside the USA...
I'm hosting my own Git instance for a while now (Gitea) and I'm still not sure if I want to have it as my default/main instance or stick with GitHub as my main.
What would you do?
I'm also very curious what self-hosted instances you guys use.
#BlueSky is a step backwards for #Decentralisation. It'll be another walled garden with power concentrated at the admin level instead of the user being in control.
Just as with #Mastodon, the focus will be on scalability of a few really big instances, instead of creating an environment that fosters a network of many small instances.
There's a reason that I have a single user instance since many years. I strongly believe that a better balance of power is possible and achievable for #ActivityPub
@jwildeboer I believe that while single-user instances are good for technically inclined users who want to enjoy all the freedoms and burdens that come with self-hosting, but I also think that large instances with a stable financial backing (hopefully directly from their users) are also good for non-technical users who want stability.
Small instances where one guy maintains a server for 20 people will leave the users hanging when the admin decides they've had enough.
Just after I told somebody how I use the two 2TB HDD of my server individually (instead of RAID) to get 4TB of storage, one of them was remounted readonly.
Looks like #Nextcloud Social might be getting a big update soon. Nextcloud Social was my intro to the #fediverse many years ago before the Social project went stale. It's not #Mastodon on the software side, but an #ActivityPub implementation that is trying to achieve a similar goal. That means you should theoretically be able to interact with #Mastodon soon using your current #Nextcloud instance as a server.
@vwbusguy
Thanks for that. All excellent developments. (I've been #selfhosting a #Nextcloud instance since 2018. It's allowed me to entirely #degoogle my life.)
In meinem Leben findet viel in Excel-Tabellen statt und ständig brauche ich neue um Dinge zu ordnen und zu sortieren. Das ist ja erstmal nicht schlimm. Blöd finde ich nur, dass ich seit Jahren dafür Google Spreadsheets nutze und einfach nicht wechseln kann, weil es einfach die beste Software ist und nichts dagegen ankommt.
Lamentablemente fue la prensa quien puso a Mastodon como LA alternativa a twitter. Pero la red nunca se planteó así.
Por otro lado, es muy dificil explicarle a la gente de IT lo que hacemos quienes hosteamos servicios comunitarios y por qué lo hacemos. No lo pueden entender, se les hace un cortocircuito mental.
Por algo será que la mayoría de quienes hacemos #selfhosting no venimos de IT
I'm Rob, a longtime #linux user (running #archlinux ATM, btw.), maker and sometimes blogger. I'm very much into #selfhosting and run most stuff on my local servers. I'm also a big #vim and @kde fan.
For my day job I'm a full time remote Embedded Software Engineer from my home
in Taranaki, NZ (I'm originally from the UK). Outside of tech stuff I enjoy vegetable #gardening and am learning #woodworking.
I'm happily married with two lovely, but also annoying children!
Just in the last 24-48 hours, I have tried my best to bring up instances of GoToSocial, MissKey, CalcKey and Pleroma just to see what would work for a single user Fediverse instance. Guess who is winning right now?
Dzisiaj na #blog całkiem obszerny wpis o #YunoHost, czyli narzędziu do #SelfHosting, ale dla mniej technicznych lub technicznych, ale leniwych 😁
Omówiłem czym jest to narzędzie, jak je zainstalować na serwerze #Oracle (lub dowolnym innym z Debianem), jak przeprowadzić podstawową konfigurację i zrobić kopię zapasową. Taki poradnik bazowy, wystarczający do rozpoczęcia przygody z tym środowiskiem 😉
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YunoHost – self-hosting w przyjaznej formie https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/yunohost-oracle/
So with Akamai swallowing up Linode im left wonderibg how to proceed.
Is Akamai decent? Do they have similar values and approach as Linode? If so shoukd is stick with them? Should i move to another provider? What are some of your favorite options?
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'm starting to accumulate a lot if media files on my Mastodon server. I'm new to this mastohosting thing and are looking for a great way to get rid of older media files. Perhaps someone knows about a good guide? #mastodon#askfedi#selfhosting (edit: I was not thinking clearly when I wrote this. I'm not hosting my own server on my own hardware. I'm on @mastohost ♥️👌)