I love YouTube, and by that I mean watching it; I would never upload there, especially now, with all of their silly censorship of things that don't even need censoring.
The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence. I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No "suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol. Just my tools, sitting there, waiting. We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it. #digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree
About Bluesky and federation: Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.
I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".
Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.
Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-f….). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.
It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.
If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.
ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.
I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
For decades, “The Year of the Linux Desktop” was treated as a tech world punchline. But as we enter 2026, the data shows the laughter has stopped. Between th...
By the way, what also helped a bit with the switch is, that all podcasts started to monetize, thus on spotify there is always only a short preview version of the podcast. Full one is usally available as a user specific rss link. This pushed me to find separate podcast solution and I am much happier with the solution I found: #NextCloud + Gpodder sync plugin as synchronization server NextCloud + Podcasts plugin for web browser listening on desktop #AntennaPod for on the go listening on Android
Falls ihr #Watchtower (automatisches Updaten von Docker Container) von containrrr eingesetzt habt: Das Projekt ist jetzt nach langer Zeit offiziell archiviert und bekommt keine Pflege mehr
It is with a heavy heart, and some sense of relief, that I'd like to announce that we are looking to archive containrrr/watchtower. Neither @piksel, nor I, are big users of docker anymore, and fran...
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✨ Co umí: • Procházení a organizace odkazů (kolekce, tagy) • Ukládání přes share sheet přímo z prohlížeče • Offline čtení cachovaných článků • Funguje s naší instancí link.oscloud.cz • Podporuje iOS/Android telefony i tablety
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...
Mein Homelab-Rebuild 2025 – weg von Kubernetes, hin zu GitOps auf Proxmox: Komodo, Gitea, Renovate und ein schlanker VM-Stack für zuverlässiges Selfhosting.
I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.
Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.
If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.
TT-RSS is going away. It was the first feed reader I hosted and used in a regular basis and it was great. Sad to see it go, but I understand the reasons. community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end… #selfhosting #selfhosted
I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.
If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.
If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.
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Everyone is now realizing that WhatsApp is evolving towards its latest form (archive.md/L3W74). If you value secure messaging, you may want to check out @signalapp or @matrix (wich is #federated). EPFL also has its own Matrix instance at matrix.epfl.ch (use @element as a client).
Several weeks ago I started to monitor my #selfhosted services with #prometheus. Two weeks ago I set alarms to notify me about possible problems. And today I made updates and buckups so I used alert silencers for the first time. It's so straitforward. I love it.
Next huge task I am plannig is to migrate it all from docker to kubernetes.
synapse seemingly has the pro in terms of support for tools such as synapse admin: github.com/Awesome-Technologie… and the ability to use oauth and handle user management using solutions such as authentik.
while conduit seems to be more resource efficient and better in terms of speed?
Here we go again About half a year ago I migrated my server. The tech stack was largely unchanged, but it was a tedious process to bring everything over. For a while I was happy. For a very little while.
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.
I just migrated my personal #XMPP server based on #Prosody to its own #selfhosted server. I could not believe how easy it was, including transferring configuration, accounts, stored messages/files, etc.
BTW, the new server is just tiny, with 1GB of RAM, and it still seems to use only a fraction of it.
I suppose this is the result of dealing with an amazing protocol (XMPP) coupled with an excellent piece of technology (Prosody) 👏
“ I actually work with and manage multiple Kubernetes, mission critical infrastructure that actually matters. I spend my entire day working with containerised applications, and what do I find when I load up Reddit? Ansible playbook writing maniacs trying to automate their light switches. You are all a bunch of sick freaks who probably dream in YAML and wake up in cold sweats wondering if you forgot to enable that cron job”
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Our closed beta testers have finally gotten their hands on Thunderbird Appointment, and it seems like they like us! Check out this review from @ZDNet - and kudos to them for trying the self-hosted install as well!
Even without ads or trackers there are plenty of web applications that sit at over 20MB. Take the #selfhosted application Nextcloud for example, without caching it would be impossible to reasonably use. And this is after they did a lot of optimizations recently.
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!
#NextCloud + Gpodder sync plugin as synchronization server
#AntennaPod for on the go listening on Android
