So.... it took me all day, but I finally managed to install GoToSocial on a Raspberry pi 4 running Alpine Linux.

This may end up replacing mastodon for me !

I still haven't sorted a web client yet but Tusky will suffice for now.

I do have one issue with Tusky it won't show my account page not sure what's going on there.🤔

Anybody else have this issue or a recommendation for the web client ?

#gotosocial
#selfhosting
#alpinelinux

More and more are realizing that it was a really bad idea to entrust all data to Big Tech. Given that, what do you do now?

For many it just means moving to a different hosting service, that is not Big Tech. For others it means hosting yourself. Likely there will be a bit of a combination for many. In any case, this means the need to build up competence in the organization, which IMHO is a good thing.

In my old company, Opera, and in my new one @Vivaldi, we always run things that way. Our servers have always been our servers. We may choose to use some external services, but mostly we use our own.

Our Vivaldi servers are in Iceland. At Opera, we built significant server farms across the world, including in Iceland, not least for the Opera Mini service. The server farms we built at Opera handled hundreds of millions of users on a monthly basis. The Opera Mini service had billions of daily page views going through it.

When some are saying that there is not enough competence to move away from Big Tech, that is really nonsense. It can take time to do so, as with any migration and it may require different thinking, but it is mostly a question of will.

#Technology #BigTech #SelfHosting #Vivaldi #Browser #EU #Europa

If I wanted to run a PostgreSQL query on my masto server which shows my personal home timeline as the result, does anyone have any pointers to guides or even such a query itself?

Please boost for reach.

#MastoAdmin #SelfHosting #MastoAdmins #PostgreSQL

great incentive for #SelfHosting #Forgejo, though 😁

I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path.

But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure he wasn't being firewalled, but he didn't show up in my abuse listing. But then on poking around, it became clear he couldn't talk to ANY port 25 ANYWHERE. And I thought, "Oh, right, they've got that blocked. Le'ts find an article talking about how to unblock it." Not too uncommon. So I looked for their docs on unblocking 25.

Turns out, there's no automated way - not even a support ticket type for the purpose. You have to open a general request.

But man, they REALLY don't want you opening a general request! This is a masterpiece of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

Without meaning to, they've eloquently captured the essence of everything we're seeing with the destructive corporatization and centralization of online services. They say:

"In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities."

This, not to put too fine a point on it, is BAD FOR US.

We need *more* selfhosting. I was a customer of theirs for a few years, but I stopped after they had some catastrophe that prevented me from accessing my server console for more than a week. Their support was underwater and I didn't get any movement until I decided to publically name and shame them with details of the incident.

This kind of attitude should make anyone hesitant to sign up for services with DigitalOcean.

#selfhosting #digitalocean

New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.

Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.

Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.

Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.

https://blog.hofstede.it/my-home-assistant-setup-bhyve-freebsd-jails-zigbee-homematic-and-matter-over-thread/

#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting

Spent a solid hour wrestling with cable management for my nascent home server rack setup. This is going to be a journey! Any pro tips for keeping things organized when you're adding new hardware all the time? My current 'system' is just... hope. 😂

#HomeLab #SelfHosting #ServerRack

Kleines Rätsel aus dem homelab:

Der pod läuft seit dem letzten Artikel schön automatisiert - plötzlich war ein container aktualisiert, ohne dass auto-update lief.

Des Rätsels Lösung: Bei :latest zieht podman kube play beim Service-Neustart selbst nach.

Neuer quick-tipp: Warum das so ist und wie imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent das abstellt 👇

https://just-stuff.blog/podman-kube-play-latest-imagepullpolicy/

#Podman #Linux #systemd #Container #SelfHosting #FOSS

It would be interesting to see how people who are nomadic (van life type folks) do homelab/selfhosting. That has to put a fascinating wrinkle in it. Power and connectivity solutions especially, running a Pi off solar vs. dealing with Starlink power draw, that kind of thing.

#SelfHosting #Homelab #VanLife #OpenSource

Ich habe #OpenAI #Codex in #ChatGPT heute folgende Admin-Aufgabe gegeben:

Herausfinden, warum eine #SSH-Verbindung zu Server „Orion“ über #autossh und einen lokalen, per #Homebrew installierten #Tor-SOCKS-Proxy nicht funktioniert, während der Zugang über #Tailscale klappt.

„Orion“ als Tailscale Exit Node konfigurieren.

Die Exit-Routen anschliessend auf dem #YunoHost-Server „Andromeda“ über die Konsole der #Headscale-App freigeben.

Codex hat selbstständig die SSH-Konfiguration, Host-Aliase, Portbelegung, Tor-Dienst, Hidden Service und Timeouts überprüft. Gefunden wurden ein fehlender SSH-Alias, ein für Tor zu kurzer Verbindungs-Timeout und ein bereits belegter lokaler Port durch eine andere autossh-Verbindung.

Danach hat Codex die SSH-Konfiguration korrigiert, die Onion-Verbindung erfolgreich getestet, auf „Orion“ die IPv4- und IPv6-Exit-Routen via Tailscale annonciert und sie auf „Andromeda“ direkt in der YunoHost-App-Konsole von Headscale freigegeben. Bestehende Subnet-Routen blieben erhalten.

Dauer: ungefähr 5 Minuten, inklusive Diagnose, Änderungen und abschliessender Verifikation.

Schon beeindruckend, wie weit agentisches Arbeiten mit OpenAI, Codex und ChatGPT inzwischen geht: nicht nur Kommandos vorschlagen, sondern eine mehrstufige Infrastrukturaufgabe nachvollziehbar untersuchen und ausführen.

#Linux #macOS #SelfHosting #Sysadmin #Homelab #AI

Neuer Quick-Tip im Blog:

Distro-Upgrade durch, alles läuft – denkt man. Dann räuspert sich PostgreSQL bei jeder Verbindung: Sortierfolgen-Version stimmt nicht. 🙃

Der glibc-Sprung schlägt wieder zu, quasi Teil 2 nach dem charlock_holmes-Drama. Spoiler: Die Warnung einfach wegdrücken wäre die schlechteste Idee, erst reindizieren!

https://just-stuff.blog/postgresql-collation-version-mismatch-glibc-upgrade/

#PostgreSQL #Debian #Trixie #Linux #SelfHosting #Mastodon

Good morrow Fediverse,

My name is Ben Looper, I'm a software engineer of five years currently living in Houston, TX...but not for much longer!
My wife and I are moving up to Calgary, AB, and I'm taking the opportunity to make some positive changes in my life, one of the first being to write more.

I have a few projects that my ADHD brain bounces between, and I want to begin fearlessly talking about them here, rather than verbal vomiting about them to whatever poor soul asks me about them.

Maybe (hopefully) these smaller updates will cascade into longer, more detailed pieces, but for now I'll be very happy to just share bits and bites, and to engage with others on stuff they're working on.

That last point specifically is what I'm most excited for - I don't have many people in my life that I can full-blown nerd out about this stuff with, and I really hope that I can find a community here to do that with.

Thanks, and happy hacking 📎
#Introduction #NewHere #Homelab #SelfHosting #NixOS #Sysadmin #calgary

@jon If you have the technical skills #selfHosting is the best way to go. You're in full control of your data and you don't have to worry about vendor rug pulls or price spikes.

Fixing #Sveltia CMS auth on #Forgejo + #Anubis

https://bouvier.cc/tech/fixing-sveltia-cms-auth-on-forgejo-anubis/

Small note explaining how I've set up the Sveltia CMS for my #blog, and made Forgejo authentication work despite Anubis challenges getting in the way!

#selfhosting

So I'm with #PaperlessNgx. Which also has some nice 3rd party #iOS clients.

#PaperParrot even supports scanning with my #Canon network MFD.

Both lack a very important feature - offline access. Well, PaperParrot has some, but it can download all your documents at once. You can't choose.

#selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost

Today I needed to find an old paper document. Also today I realized how badly I need a #PaperlessNgx or #Papra. Coincidence? I don't think so.

This is crazy how many useless papers we have accumulated over the years.

I set up both to figure out a better option.

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #personalCloud #HomeCloud

I’m thinking about turning my #VPS in a #Proxmox node and adding it to my #homelab cluster. All other nodes are at my home. They will communicate through #WireGaurd. How bad is this idea? Anyone tried this?

#AskFedi #SelfHosted #selfhost #selfhosting #proxmoxve #ProxmoxCluster

Big shout out to #MusicBrainz
#Picard #MusicBrainzPicard

Works. Free. No ads.

You can donate here
https://metabrainz.org/donate

#OpenSource #Navidrome #selfhosting

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Screen grab of MusicBrains > About

Help me out #Fediverse #selfhosting :

Is there a word or name for the phase of my life when every problem looks like a good excuse to purchase a used Dell Optiplex?

Gmail blocks emails, even from friends and family, if they use another email host without the technical settings they demand. This means people who self-host their email can be blocked from communicating with #Gmail users.

One solution: Gmail users could move to an email host that does not block from known contacts in your own address book!

I suspect many Gmail users are unaware of this change beginning in 2024.

https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/sending-mail-to-gmail.html

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126

#censorship #SelfHosting

A little #introduction post to get me started here:

I’m just bee seventytwo, you know? (he / him)

Interested in what makes things better for everyone, but probably not very interesting in myself.

Some ideas to get to know me:
#Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #TheLeft #Kindness #Cats

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#NoBot #NoBridge #NoAI

You can contact me on XMPP: b72@disroot.org

Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

The whole series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

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a screenshot of GoToSocial's installation page on YunoHost that reads: "GoToSocial Current version: 0.22.0~ynh1 Potential alternative to: Akkoma, Bluesky, Calckey, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Threads, X GoToSocial is a fast ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to! The official documentation is at docs.gotosocial.org. Admins are strongly encouraged to read the documentation of this package after installing it. It is available in the webadmin under Applications > gotosocial (at the bottom) or here on the package's repository! Please note that this package uses the "i'm so tired" software license 1.0, please read it and accept it before proceeding with installation."

A few things to share, nginx: CVE-2026-42533 dropped yesterday 2026-07-15. It is fixed in nginx 1.31.3, also released yesterday. CVSS 8.1 or 9.2 depending on the nginx version. It's a heap buffer overflow in the map directive when regex... regardless, it is unauthenticated, needs a custom HTTP request, can crash it or lead to code execution if Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is disabled, or bypassed. Don't disable memory randomization. Not sure how to bypass ASLR, I'll have to look into that.

glibc CVE-2026-5450 originally disclosed 2026-04-20 so it's "not new." What's new is the SSVC exploitation flag flipping to "poc" within the last 21 days meaning a proof-of-concept surfaced recently for an April CVE, which is the "weaponized old CVE" pattern we see regularly. No vendor patch exists? Maybe i'm missing it. CVSS 9.8, scanf %mc off-by-one heap overflow with an explicit width >1024... real-world exposure is low even with a PoC out.

Debian 13.6 was released 2026-07-11. It's a point release, bundled a ton of security advisories including and an expired Secure Boot CA fix. It's the routine patch cycle.

Make it so.

#minimalist #Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec #Exploit

Habt ihr eine Idee, welche #OpenSource gerne auch #SelfHosting Lösung als eine Art Reisetagebuch geeignet ist?

AdventureLog bekomme ich beim besten Willen nicht zum Laufen und wäre evtl. auch etwas overkill.

Im Prinzip möchte mein Papa ähnlich dem WhatsApp Status immer mal wieder Bilder / Text seiner Fahrrad-Trips posten die nicht unbedingt voll öffentlich sondern halt "Seinen Kontakten" oder Leuten mit Link dazu geteilt werden können.
#FragFedi #Linux #FOSS #Reise #Tagebuch

📝 Hosting DokuWiki on FreeBSD with Bastille, nginx, and Caddy // hofstede.it

https://blog.hofstede.it/hosting-dokuwiki-on-freebsd-with-bastille-nginx-and-caddy/

#freebsd #bsd #batille #nginx #caddy #selfhosting

Have setup a server with #YunoHost and really liking it so far. It gives me the #Selfhosting projects that I want that I can manage now that selfhosting is a little burdensome with my version Parkinson's. I was considering downsizing my selfhosting menu because I was afraid of catastrophic loss due to poor digit control of my hands and using the terminal for even the most simple tasks. May soon migrate my Mastodon instance... I have all this bandwidth due to needing business class internet in my home. Hate to waste it, not to mention I have unlimited storage space because due to selfhosted hardware. @yunohost

Have setup a server with #YunoHost and really liking it so far. It gives me the #Selfhosting projects that I want that I can manage now that selfhosting is a little burdensome with my version Parkinson's. I was considering downsizing my selfhosting menu because I was afraid of catastrophic loss due to poor digit control of my hands and using the terminal for even the most simple tasks. May soon migrate my Mastodon instance... I have all this bandwidth due to needing business class internet in my home. Hate to waste it, not to mention I have unlimited storage space because due to selfhosted hardware. @yunohost

I built Kollect because browser tabs are a terrible reading list.

It’s a native Plasma 6 link collector written in C++/Qt/Kirigami: plain TOML files by default, optional self-hosted FastAPI/SQLite storage, KWallet secrets, MiniMax M3 metadata enrichment, and a proper Fedora RPM.

Small, inspectable software that solves one problem well.

https://blog.hofstede.it/kollect-the-native-kde-link-collector-i-built-for-myself/

#KDE #Linux #SelfHosting #Qt #Development

You Were Right: Here's the Better Way to Do Homelab HTTPS #homelab #selfhosting
Watch here: https://youtu.be/XEltHEZU6aE

as someone with essentially no web development experience, but who would like to learn the fundamentals, what modern, lightweight frameworks exist that I should check out? Or should I just do some raw html and javascript stuff?

I'm very partial to simple, efficient design that can be served from low-end hardware. My use-case is for self-hosting some projects and wiki pages, including a small e-commerce shop for custom electronics. I've written a tiny amount of html, but css makes me throw up a bit in my mouth.

my buddy has offered to "help" with his Fable access, and this is a cry for help.

#selfhosting #webdev

Auf meinem Schreibtisch steht eine vollständige Cloud.
Kleiner als ein Taschenbuch, leiser als der Lüfter neben dir, sparsamer als eine Glühbirne. Kein Abo, keine fremde Cloud, keine Blackbox. Sie gehört mir.

Möglich macht das eine Architektur, die erwachsen geworden ist: ARM, energieeffizient, leise. Dazu eine schlanke, quelloffene Software aus Berlin @OpenCloud@opencloud.eu , die die Daten dort lässt, wo man sie hinlegt.

Ein neuer Artikel über ARM, den aus den Fugen geratenen Speichermarkt, die Freiheit, sich selbst auszusperren, und ein Mini-Rechenzentrum, das aussehen will wie ein kleines Gebäude.

Viel Spass beim Lesen!
👉 https://www.pandolin.io/die-cloud-die-in-eine-hand-passt/

#DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #OpenCloud #ARM #Fediverse #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Illustration des Pandolin-Maskottchens, ein Pangolin, der an einem Schreibtisch ein kleines leuchtendes Mini-Rechenzentrum in den Klauen hält

Why rent a server when you can own one? #selfhosting is not just about control, it's about cutting the corporate umbilical cord.

Cloud services are profitable for big tech, but the hidden costs of data privacy breaches and vendor lock-in hit hard. Self-hosting offers independence and resilience in the digital age.

selfhosting clouddependence digitalfreedom

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_nodez3r0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Cloud services are profitable for big tech, but the hidden costs of data privacy breaches and vendor lock-in hit hard. Self-hosting offers independence and resilience in the digital age.

GitHub gehört Microsoft. Zeit für einen Ausweg.

GitHub gehört seit 2018 Microsoft, unterliegt dem US Cloud Act und lässt Copilot seit April 2026 standardmäßig mit deinem Code trainieren, wenn du nicht widersprichst. Codeberg ist die naheliegende Alternative: gemeinnützig, europäisch, ohne Konzern im Rücken. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-12-12-49-32-github-gehoert-microsoft-zeit-fuer-einen-ausweg/

#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ServerInfrastruktur #GitHub #Codeberg #GitLab #Microsoft #OpenSource #CloudAct #Copilot #SelfHosting

Something really important happened. My wife approved #iCloud to #Immich migration. She tried the mobile app and liked it much more than the iOS Photos app.
Now the only thing we need is to wait for the Immich sharing overhaul release around version 3.1 or 3.2: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/27437

#SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #homelab #PhotoLibrary #waf

What do self-hosting folks use on their phone (android) for email and calendar integration?

I'm on k9mail and use nextcloud for calendar. I'd really like to accept meeting invite/updates on my phone. I can open the ics file but that seems to struggle with timezones and other small issues.

#SelfHosting #FediHelp

GitHub gehört Microsoft. Zeit für einen Ausweg.

GitHub gehört seit 2018 Microsoft, unterliegt dem US Cloud Act und lässt Copilot seit April 2026 standardmäßig mit deinem Code trainieren, wenn du nicht widersprichst. Codeberg ist die naheliegende Alternative: gemeinnützig, europäisch, ohne Konzern im Rücken. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-12-12-49-32-github-gehoert-microsoft-zeit-fuer-einen-ausweg/

#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ServerInfrastruktur #GitHub #Codeberg #GitLab #Microsoft #OpenSource #CloudAct #Copilot #SelfHosting

#selfhosting enlighten me, how do I secure, and I mean THOROUGHLY secure, a public facing service (say forgejo/ntfy/matrix homeserver) etc properly, so that I can actually expose them to the public internet and inbound connections?

I am not yet hosting such services, mostly because I'm worried I'll badly mess up somewhere

BUT I really, really want to do it and do it well, all the kubernetes, containers, VM and orchestration talk sounds really nice!

(While we're at it, can someone teach me the difference between a homelab and a homeserver?)

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homeserver #homelab #kubernetes #orchestration #containers #vms

Are you into 3D printing, self-hosting and the Fediverse?

If so you might want to look into Manyfold, a FOSS Fediverse platform which lets you upload and share 3D print models:

🌱 https://manyfold.app

You can follow the official accounts at:

🌱 @manyfold@3dp.chat (main)
🌱 @manyfold@makertube.net (videos)

You can host your own Manyfold server using the instructions at https://manyfold.app/get-started/installation (be warned though, installation does require a bit of tech skill).

#3DPrinting #SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub