Tired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.

I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.

Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.

https://get.kiwix.org/en/

#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI

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Screenshot of a Kiwix library home page showing five downloaded "books": Wikipedia, ArchWiki, Python Documentation, MedlinePlus, and iFixit.

The price increase from Hetzner made me rethink my personal infrastructure ..

- Migrated last service off an old auction server
- Moved the content of my StorageBox to my FreeBSD ZFS
- Migrated and cancelled a CPX42 VPS instance
- Migrated and cancelled a CAX21 VPS instance

One more CX23 is currently in the process of being virtualized on my Proxmox cluster.

The Mastodon instance burningboard.net is still running there as cloud instances. But the price of those resources will only increase by ~4€/Month and I don't want to migrate it again (Just moved on the current system in December 2025)

So in the end, the Hetzner bill will be considerably lower in the future, since I reduced my infrastructure footprint by a lot and consolidated things on my bare metal servers in a CoLo datacenter 🙂

Sometimes a trigger like that can break through the laziness and have a positive outcome 🥳

#selfhosting #hetzner @hetzner #proxmox #infrastructure @tux #cloud

Der Kleingarten-Verein der Liebsten hat das übliche Problem: Mails vom VPS werden öfters mal von Microsoft und jetzt auch T-Online abgewiesen.

Erst meckerte MS wegen der Netcup-IP, nun motzt T-Online wegen IONOS. Aktuell läuft der Datenverkehr über Wireguard Netcup -> IONOS.

Hat wer von Euch eine Empfehlung für ein brauchbares Mail-Relay?

Verein ohne kommerziellen Background, daher gerne so günstig wie möglich. Ist #Mailjet empfehlenswert? Eine Fußzeile mit Werbung wäre akzeptabel.

Danke im Voraus.

#selfhosting #Mailanbieter

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Les infrastructures low-cost d'auto-hébergement échouent systématiquement face aux filtres draconiens des grands fournisseurs de messagerie.

#microsoft #verkehr #selfhosting #aktuell #mailjet

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Legacy providers are weaponizing IP reputation, forcing non-profits into costly commercial solutions.

#microsoft #verkehr #selfhosting #aktuell #mailjet

💖 hi! i'm self hosting a gotosocial instance now, and this is my new primary account! please boost to help me federate this instance more!!

about me: i love people, and i especially love the people in my local community. some of my goals in life are getting my own wiki page (im vain), building a housing cooperative, and being the best woman i can possibly be for my partner. i love being intentional with my aesthetic, which has evolved over the years into the pink & black combo i do now. 🖤💖

i have been on some form of mastodon since 2022. i believe we all need to do as much as possible to boycott companies that do or support unethical things, like donating to fascists. for me, using the fediverse is a great alternative to corporate social media.
still, i really value my time - so my following list is very small and i do not spend large amounts of time here. i try to spend my time doing productive things - lots of which are related to @vs - or connecting with the people i love.

on this account you can expect to see lots of random thoughts, some questions, polls, photos (including some cw'd lewds), ventposts, and general nonsense. thanks for following me! 💖

#intropost #introduction #trans #transjoy #Minnesota #vegan #coop #homeschool #anarchy #anarchist #ocd #audhd #fedora #linux #foss #selfhosting #grapheneos

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photo of me. i have split hair coloring, with black on the left and pink on the right. i'm wearing a stetson, pink sunglasses, and a pink sweater with red hearts on it.

2'000 Follis auf YT. Herzlichen Dank!

https://youtube.com/@Tuxwiz

Und auf PeerTube bin ich natürlich auch zu finden:

https://makertube.net/c/tuxwiz/videos

#linux #selfhosting #privacy

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Exakt 2'000 Follis auf YT

Modified my #Gitea config to run `git gc` every day on schedule and now my Gitea backup size is half of before! Why did no one mention trick before‽ #selfhosting

Nuevo server uruguayo de mensajería *XMPP*.

Si bien está funcionando desde el 1 de noviembre, es la primera vez que le _"doy pa delante"_ aquí porque considero que ya esta lo suficientemente "maduro" como para dejarlo crecer.

https://xmpp.uy

#xmpp #snikket #prosody #selfhosting #selfhosted #uruguay #monocles #conversations_im #concersations

New blogpost (on new blog!):

# Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG

My notes on setting up BSSG, and migrating from hugo, along with copies of my config files, css, and customised header.

With many thanks to @stefano, for sharing his amazing site building tool with us.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/

#Linux #SelfHosting #BSSG #hugo #blog

My server PC started to do the random clicking noise. One of the hard drives is about to fail. This unintended notification warned me sooner than SMART did.

I want to use this opportunity to finally add some redundancy to the storage. Now I have a btrfs on lvm on luks. I am thinking: Should I get rid of lvm and just have btrfs with raid1 on luks? Or shoud I have btrfs on lvm with raid1 on luks? 🤔 Can't decide.

#SelfHosting

Wow, what a difference. After more than a year since I installed friendica, I added memcached. It went from unusably slow to just completely normal and usable!

Why didn't I do this right away? Probably because it's poorly documented that this is even possible.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy I finally fixed the performance issue on my server. Yay!

#friendica #SelfHosting #memcached

Well, I was considering Booklore for my #homelab. However, after this little piece of information, that's right out...

Not only has it become AI slop, the dev is making it REALLY difficult to be even remotely sympathetic...

So, that's right out of the window, I'm sure there are other, non-sloppified, at least as good #selfhosted book management pieces of software...

Context:

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rs275q/psa_think_hard_before_you_deploy_booklore/

#selfhosting

Gestern war ich bei der #C3Selfhosting User Group. Und es waren (mal wieder) überwiegend als Männer gelesene Personen dort.

Warum ist das so und viel wichtiger: Wie können wir die Diversität an der Stelle erhöhen?

Ich mache mir Gedanken darüber und freue mich über euer Feedback / eure Meinung.

#selfhosting #homelab #linux #diversity

Self-Host Weekly (2026-03-13)

#Booklore turns sour, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenDroneLog -- a #drone flight log app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-03-13

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #devops #sysadmin #newsletter #privacy #security #fediverse #app #apps #smarthome #truenas #ntfy

I am looking to host a **de-federated** mastodon instance for 300 to 500 people.

I wanted to know what kind server specs I should go for for this kind of project. should I go for 8gb or 4gb of RAM, roughly how many vCPUs/threads, etc..

#fediverse #mastodon #SelfHosting #activitypub #homelab

The closer I get to #selfhosting my own #email, the more I'm finding myself unsubscribing and blocking emails coming into my personal inbox.

SSH management direkt aus dem terminal heraus.

SSHM greift direkt auf deine ssh config zu und du kannst alle deine hosts mit einer taste anpingen oder connect.

Mega cool!

https://2tap2.be/sshm

#linux #SSH #server #security #selfhosting #homelab #terminal #tui

@mosgaard you're all missing the simple and obvious. *Every* Linux File Browser *already* has built-in support to connect to a remote SFTP share (the remote #linux box needs the "openssh-server" installed).
It goes almost full wire speed, even on tiny files. Beats SMB for speed. I use this heavily in my home lab. For example in #KDE Dolphin: "Network": icon on left - > "Add Network Folder" button in the upper right - > "Secure shell (ssh)" radio button.
#SelfHosting

Not sure why I did this, but ejabberd works fine on my gen 1 raspberry pi (14 years old, 512mb RAM). Would probably enough to handle a small instance for friends and family.

#ejabberd #raspberryPi #rpi #xmpp #permacomputing #selfhosting

Self-Hosting is not just a safety feature. It is a political act.

#SelfHosting

I did not find any documentation or issues on this very nice topic on the web, maybe Fedi can help:
I want to ssh into a remote server and a CLI tool there needs to access my yubikey, which is slotted in the machine i am connecting from.
Is there any way to relay this between the machines?
I do not need help with using the yubikey to log on via ssh...

Not sure which hashtags to use here, if you have any good ones, let me know.

#DuckDuckFedi #Yubikey #SelfHosting

I'm looking for a simple web based chat app that I can selfhost . I'd prefer something with voice chat but I need to keep bandwidth low. IRC may be too key-board heavy for this use case

suggestions are welcome

#selfHosting #selfhosted

I was kind of not bothered to address IP renewal whilst self hosting but it turns out my ISP does indeed refresh IPs every now and then so I finally set up a utility to refresh domain records

#selfhosting #linux

I have an #xmpp server now. A #prosody instance. And I need to make a statement.

There are no good clients for macOS and iOS.

I think I tried all of them. #Monal is a lesser evil.

There is also #Fluux that is very good and really looks like software from the current century, but it still doesn’t support encryption.

This is sad 😔

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost #homelab #jabber #chat

Oh for fuck’s sake. TrueNAS has been my go-to recommendation for people wanting to build their own home NAS, but I guess it’s off the list now that the enshittification has begun. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rpck7k/truenas_build_system_going_closed_source/

tl;dr: they’re moving from a public GitHub repo to closed internal systems for “SeCuRiTy”… likely story considering they’re rolling out new features behind a paywall (see https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/1qvu7f8/truenas_freemiumpaywalling/)

#selfhosting

I see a lot of self-hosters have Macs in their #homelab. I’m wondering how it works? Is it still MacOS on it or is it just Apple hardware with Linux on it?

#macos #macmini #SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost

Próba okiełznania #immich.a + #syncthing.a + zdjec z telefonu i backupow starych zdjec z innych zrodel to jest jazda bez trzymanki.... 😂

#selfhosting

For all the #Mastodon #selfhosting folks out there, any idea what I should be looking at as far as backoff timers or whatever from other instances coming back down, after something like a week of downtime? Several instances, most notably infosec.exchange, still haven't been sending me new messages, some 18 hours later.

I didn't even get one when I tagged myself in a new post - https://infosec.exchange/@north/116199899292856762 - until I searched for it¹. Any insight maybe, @jerry ?

Curiously, Threads and brid.gy started sending me messages within about 15 minutes of coming back online. That seems bad.

¹ at that point, it became a pull, not a push

Edit: A boost from the other side does not appear to have been correctly pushed.

I’m trying to build a USB-C only 10“ Rack. I would like to add a #Lenovo ThinkCentre M80q Gen 3. Has anyone tested the Lenovo USB-C to Slim-Tip adapter (Lenovo 4X90U45346) with a small ThinkCentre desktop before? #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting
Maybe also @thinkpadmuseum help?

D'ailleurs, l'instance Papra BlablaLinux tourne déjà avec toutes ces optimisations !

✅ Le labo (mis à jour) : https://papra.blablalinux.be
✅ Le Docker Compose complet : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/c696e234a3d12996b9d6821d8c684b06

Fini les "je n'ai pas reçu le mail" et les serveurs encombrés, tout roule ! 🐧🔥

#SelfHosting #Linux #Papra #OpenSource #SysAdmin #BlablaLinux #Docker #Automation #Productivité

#Reddit's automod thought I posted a violent threat (I was describing highschool classmates enlisting in the aftermath of 9/11) and banned me for a few days. Tempted to try running my #Lemmy instance again. #SelfHosting

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An independent developer is resurrecting the check-in model on open infrastructure, challenging the data hegemony of Big Tech.

#war #ios #selfhosting #openstreetmap #swift

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Ein Entwickler reaktiviert das Konzept ortsbasierter sozialer Netzwerke durch eine selbstgehostete, OpenStreetMap-basierte Architektur.

#war #ios #selfhosting #openstreetmap #swift