Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is all about XMPP.

Snikket (snikket.org/) is an easy-to-install, and easy-to-administer, XMPP server. It is designed for families and other small groups. The apps for Android and iOS (based on Conversations, I think) are great.

Dino (dino.im/) is my desktop XMPP client of choice.

Profanity (profanity-im.github.io/) is a terminal / console XMPP client, which is incredibly convenient.

Why not have a fun festive project of setting up an XMPP-based chat server for you and your family and friends?

#XMPP #FOSS #SelfHosting

Dino. Communicating happiness.

A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.

^dino.im

Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

@arcanechat Containers have solved this problem of compatibility, if you want more self hosters to run your stuff you make a simple docker compose example.

#selfhosting

I had a cheeky comment prepared for today, saying that you shouldn't rely on Cloudflare if you can afford it, and that you don't truly self-host when you use it, but I could not post it because one of the services I don't self-host —my Mastodon instance— depends on #Cloudflare, too. 😅

#selfHosting #selfhost

People who self-host (anything, not just Mastodon). Are you running services at your house? If so, are you hiding them behind a VPS that tunnels to your home's IP?

CC @neil , because you're the first person I thought of that would be able to answer.

#selfhosting

Hey all you selfhosters and homelabbers. When you are in need of a new fancy domain, where du you get it und how much d you roughly pay for it monthly. Are there any tld's which are really cheap? I mean there really seem to be people out there collecting that stuff and i think that must be quite expensive when you collect exessively.

#selfhosting @homelab @homelab_de

Question for those of you who host a LLM by themselfs with Ollama, llama.cpp and use it for example for generating alt texts for images.
What LLM do you recommend? Which one generates a good description for screen reader users with the least amount of computing?

Whats your experience with that? Bonus points for LLM's which perform really good in CPU only situations.

#selfhosting @homelab @homelab_de #llm #accessibility

Ubiquiti is using mongodb 3.6 in its installation instructions for self-hosting the UniFi controller.

Support for mongodb 3.6 ended in April 2021, as far as I can tell.

So while I've got an up to date UniFi installation, the database behind it is *very* old.

Updating mongodb to something more modern (e.g. 7) is painful.

Very painful.

Fortunately - with lots of backups - uninstalling mongodb 3.6 and purging unifi, then installing mongodb 7 and reinstalling unifi, then restoring unifi from backup, worked.

#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting

The self hoster's paradox...

Everything working well: "I'm bored, there's nothing to play with 🥱"

Something breaks: "This is not how I want to spend my Sunday night, why do I do this 😭"
#selfhosting #fediadmin #homelab

Hey @delta! Reading this delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows… got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻

#Firefox #PWA #Tauri #DeltaChat #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebExtensions

Delta Chat: Delta Chat Desktop, but running inside of Firefox 🦊

As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...

^delta.chat

In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.

I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.

I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-m…

#homelab #selfHosting #sre

Post-mortem of the September 2 outage

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

TIL that the president of Signal believes that people who run Mastodon and/or Matrix servers do so "in most cases" on hyperscaler* infrastructure.

This is my Mastodon server. And its UPS. And its networked KVM for when things get really hairy.

It's also my Matrix server. And Nextcloud. And Git. And Home-Assistant. And Jellyfin. And SearXNG. And Peertube.

When people objected to her claims, she doubled down and proclaimed condescendingly that we "don't have a clear understanding of this space".

TIL that I don't feel confident in recommending people to use Signal. Something's very off here.

*) "hyperscaler" basically means the big cloud infra providers with provisioning APIs that allow you to scale your resources up/down automatically with usage

#Signal #Mastodon #Matrix #SelfHosting

Google is going to make HTTPS required by default in Chrome in a year.

In the post there is quite a bit of talk about the problem of obtaining a cert for local network names. Hopefully their push to make everything-HTTPS will include local network addresses too. We really badly need it.

They kind of seem to say they will, but it's all talk until shown otherwise: "In the future, we hope to work to further reduce barriers to adoption of HTTPS, especially for local network sites."

security.googleblog.com/2025/1…

#chrome #security #selfhosting

HTTPS by default

One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

^{Google Online Security Blog}

Sending mail from residential ip be like:

It's easily solvable using a "free" SMTP relay. But the privacy benefits of self-hosting are lost.

I'm using smtp2go to deliver to outlook and gmail. I have no idea if smtp2go is good or no. Do you have any recommendation?

#mail #SelfHosting #email #relay

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_202…

Signal was down for few hours today, after an outage that affected AWS:

mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…

Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.

Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.

May they prove me wrong over and over again.

#signal #im #aws #amazon #privacy #security #digitalsovereignty #selfhosting #fediverse #federation #p2p #enshittification #xmpp #jami #politics #opensource #freesoftware #libre

Meredith Whittaker

2025-10-20 08:00:15

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Which self hosted website uptime monitoring tool are the cool kids using nowadays?

#askfedi #uptime #monitoring #opensource #selfhosting

What a feeling of satisfaction after receiving a call via my own #XMPP server from my partner, who is at the time in a commercial flight. 😆

The call quality was flawless.

And no need of #bigTech!

#selfhosting

So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.

Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.

#selfhosting #nas

This is one example showing how @unifiedpush is important.

404media.co/apple-gave-governm…

#selfhosting

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications

Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

📢 Big news for Yunohost users!

Prosody is now packaged for Yunohost, replacing Metronome.

Prosody is a lightweight and easy-to-use XMPP (Jabber) server.

With Prosody, you can easily host your own instant messaging service, giving you full control over your data and privacy.

Thanks a lot to every contributors!

#Yunohost #Prosody #XMPP #Jabber #OpenSource #SelfHosting

apps.yunohost.org/app/prosody

Zkouším TriliumNext Notes na @oscloud a nemá to chybu!
Fork původního Trilium Notes, kde se vývoj pozastavil, ale pokračuje dál. Hierarchické poznámky, databázové úložiště, super rychlé vyhledávání a navíc běží krásně i ve webu

Repo: github.com/TriliumNext/triliumnext
Více info: triliumnext.com

#Oscloud #SelfHosting #TriliumNext #OpenSource #PKM #Notes #linux

is there any VPS provider more chad than #Contabo ?? arcanechat.me VPS went down today, the VPS will simply fail to start from the Control Panel, this WAY TOO OFTEN happens during weekends or holidays, their status page says nothing about any problems or maintenance, and if you try to write to support they will tell you "sorry it is weekend, your message will not even be stored" so I guess arcanechat.me will be down the whole weekend >

#ArcaneChat #sysadmin #vps #selfhosting #email

The thing about blogs: If it looks modern with a short URL and has tons of cookie popups and self-promo, stay away. If it looks like a plain HTML page with some basic CSS, found at a long URL at the bottom of your search result, it's probably trustworthy and written by a passionate self-hosting human being.

Basically, the more it looks like motherfuckingwebsite.com, the higher the quality of the material you're about to read.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Blog #ModernInternet

☁️ Vítejte na OSCloud!
OSCloud je komunitní server pro všechny, kdo hledají jednoduché a funkční online řešení.
📢 Co nabízíme?
🔹 Hosting a správu open-source aplikací – bezpečné a soukromé alternativy ke komerčním službám.
🔹 Od e-mailu, přes kancelářské aplikace a bezpečnostní prvky, až po snadno spravovaný webhosting.
V následujících dnech vám postupně představíme dostupné aplikace a jejich možnosti. Sledujte nás a objevte svět bezpečného cloudu!

#OSCloud #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Privacy

#SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab

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youtu.be/lb71EGCzoEw

Nulla di nuovo, ma carino che anche canali mainstream parlino di alternative a #Google #Foto

@lealternative

#alternatives #alternative #immich #photo #degoogled #selfhosting

Ho ABBANDONATO Google FOTO per... MEMORIA "senza LIMITI" e TOTALE PRIVACY (ecco come)

ISCRIVITI se ti piace la TECNOLOGIA ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/TuttoTechNet?sub_confirmation=1Google Foto è uno dei migliori servizi online di sempre, perme...

^YouTube

I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

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My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom

be-far's Digital Garden

Tip You will own nothing, and you will be happy. On my little corner of the internet, I document my adventures in tech and complain about the internet of shit.

^be-far.com

Hey würde jemand Lust verspüren sich beim Betrieb eines deutschen #panoramax Servers einzubringen? Streetview Photos unter CC und für OSM
community.openstreetmap.org/t/…

#selfhosting #openstreetmap #fossgis #gistribe #datenschutz #photografie

Deutscher Panoramax Server?

Wenn es um das Problem des Hostens der Bilder geht könnte man vielleicht gucken, dass man die Bilder einfach auf Wikimedia Commons speichert und Panoramax nur als Viewer für die auf den Wikimedia Servern liegenden Fotos nutzt.

^{OpenStreetMap Community Forum}

New blogpost: Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links

Last week, someone kindly flagged a problem with how I'd got calendar invitations set up, and it was annoying me.

So, over the weekend, I fixed it :)

neilzone.co.uk/2024/09/thunder…

#Nextcloud #Thunderbird #blog #caldav #selfhosting #Linux

Impressive, since switching from gitlab-ci to earthly, pipeline runs with container builds went from >20 minutes down to 3-8 minutes.

What a little bit of better caching can do for you.

It's no longer fully self-hosted, but earthly is trivial to self-host if I want to bother at some point.

git.shivering-isles.com/shiver…

And given earthly hands out 6000 CI minutes for free, it actually cuts cost compared to starting a VM on hetzner or locally.

#earthly #gitlab #selfhosting

shared/earthly · a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384 · Shivering-Isles / Infrastructure GitOps · GitLab

GitOps-based setup for infrastructure, including all tooling and instructions for bootstraping

^GitLab

nginx (by F5) forked as freenginx by long time core developer Maxim Dounin 👀

freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/…

phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Forked…

#freenginx #nginx #webdev #selfhosting #opensource

This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

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!

selfh.st/newsletter/2024-01-19…

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #homeserver #opensource #newsletter

This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on wg-easy, a WireGuard management container with a web interface

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

@molly0xfff's post on migrating from Substack by self hosting is a master piece in clear communication. This is how you cover a complex issue without glossing over details due to hindsight while also not making the topic sound more daunting. A great example of building stairs and elevators after you've climbed instead of pulling the ladder. Highly recommend reading even if you're not in the newsletter sending game.

citationneeded.news/substack-t…

#Substack #SelfHosting #NewsLetter #Ghost

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.

^{Molly White (Citation Needed)}

I was working on Tweetormator, a open source self-hosted solution to tweet scheduling, engagement analysis and evergreen♻️ tweets but that feels dead in the water now.

Or perhaps I could convert it to Tootormator? I'll need to look into the Mastodon API.

#opensource #react #javascript #selfhosting