Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

Pretty cool trick so you don’t have to deploy a fully fledged Anubis to protect against DDoS-by-LLM-companies?

https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/

#selfHosting #homelab #sre

Self-Hosting Immich: Private Photo Cloud:
https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/11/selfhosting-immich/
#selfhosting #immich #nextcloud #photos #privacy

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

Do you have the media required to build systems without an Internet connection?
Do you have a local repository server with packages enabling a "local" network install?
#Preparedness #Resilience #OpenSource #Selfhosting

Endlich! Ich habe es geschafft, die Dovecot-Konfiguration aus meiner Mailserver-Anleitung auf das neue Dovecot 2.4 aus Debian Trixie anzupassen.

Welche Parameter anzupassen sind (und eine komplette Beispielkonfiguration) findet ihr in meinem Blog:

"Alte Dovecot Konfiguration zu Dovecot 2.4 (Debian Trixie) migrieren" - https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-migrate-config-to-dovecot-2.4-debian-trixie/

#mailserver #blog #selfhosting #dovecot #debian #trixie

Are ECC TLS certificates "production ready" or should I stick to RSA based certificates for mailservers?

#selfhosting #Mailserver #email

I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).

Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.

There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting ​

It seems that #BigTech has decided to make October the month of promoting #selfhosting.

The case (Fractal Design Define R5) is here..time to load up the drives ... #NAS #HomeLab #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost

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My minio instance has very basic needs and continues to chug along, but they've clearly made every effort to do away with the community version and I need to figure out a plan before I'm stuck.

Anyone switched to Garage?

Any other suggestions for self-hosting S3 compatible storage?

I'm basically only using it for hosting static pages, restic backup target, and sometimes as a media store for matrix / GoToSocial (though I think neither at this exact moment).

#homelab #selfhosting

We've just released a bugfix for v0.127.0, so as @Alephcat suggested, we just *had* to call it v0.127.0.0.1... hopefully this doesn't break anything 🤪

https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold/releases/tag/v0.127.0.0.1

#SelfHosting

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

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A corner of a room featuring two black electronic devices on a wooden floor. Numerous cables are visible, some leading to a power outlet. One device has a control panel with a blue light.

Yesterday evening just before going to sleep I installed #pihole on #raspberrypi 5. The process was straight forward and it works like a charm. It neatly blocks advertisements for all devices in my local network. It also blocked #youtube adds to my surprise.

I am actually considering donating to support #pihole.

https://pi-hole.net

#pihole #raspberrypi #SelfHosting #Linux

Apple knows how to kill secondary market. I though why not try a Mac Mini M1 for a home server, running Linux of course. The thing is that the one that I can find have 8GBs of RAM. That's it! No future!

That could be a perfect and lasting home server!

#Apple #SelfHosting #Linux

Been using subsonic for my music library hosting for a while now. I think owning the music I listen to is way better than subscribing to it.

#selfhosting

Habe in der Mittagspause mal eben den #Miniflux RSS Reader auf einem Server installiert. Ging schnell und problemlos. Die Doku dazu ist prima 🙂

Und die Anbindung von Capy Reader über die Google Reader -kompatible Schnittstelle von Miniflux hat auch wunderbar funktioniert. Man muss nur wissen, dass man sich dann eben mit den Google Reader API Credentials einloggen muss - und nicht mit den normalen Zugangsdaten für Miniflux.

#miniflux #rss #capyReader #rssFeed #feedreader #selfhosting #blog

Am thinking about building a NAS with all the hardware of discarded Windows 10 PC's I've replaced for people. Might try out TrueNAS.

#Selfhosting #Homelab

Thinking of locking myself in this weekend to finally set up some #selfhosting again. At the very least a smol kubernetes cluster with some fun apps and something to manage it all.

Dear Fedi friends,

Oh happy day!

My #Docker woes have gone away since I realized I can use Docker exclusively via CLI (and not GUI - I thought that was the default). When I couldn’t connect Docker Desktop to my VPS yesterday I was feeling so down. But yay Docker CLI here I come.

Special thanks to everyone who offered advice yesterday, ESPECIALLY @antoine_ali 🏆

I have a feeling you’ll get a laugh out of my next blog post detailing my #selfhosting attempts - because my perception of how Docker operates was all warped.

I must have exposed to the outside my current Docker instance with yesterday’s inane tweaks to access the GUI, so I will uninstall and re-install Docker first thing today… and up the challenge by attempting to do a fresh Ghost installation on it.

I truly know nothing! But I know more than yesterday, that’s for sure. 🤗

Thank you for all your advice (and patience!) 🙏

#MySoCalledSudoLife