💖 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.

Dieser Atlantic-Artikel zeigt sehr eindrücklich die fragile Basis des #AI Booms.
Aus #cybersecurity Sicht stelle ich mir zwei Fragen:
1. Wollen wir trotz der #digitalsovereignty Debatte die Zuspitzung auf die Hyperscaler weiter forcieren - oder gestalten wir aktiv Vendor-Diversifikation?
2. Wie resilient ist mein AI-Use-Case wenn LLM-Kosten signifikant steigen? #OpenWeight und #Selfhosting sind keine Nischenlösungen, sondern sinnvolle Optionen im #TPRM.

Hier der Artikel von Matteo Wong und Charlie Warzel, #TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/ai-boom-polycrisis/686559/

I'm new to #selfhosting; I currently have several services running in my #homelab, all as #docker containers.

I've noticed that several services use common components such as #redis, #nginx, #postgres, etc.

Would it be possible or advisable not to duplicate individual components? For example, would it be possible to have a single independent container with Nginx or the DBMS serving Nextcloud and other services?

ver 0.2.1 🎉

Two small but not entirely unimportant bug fixes

- some instances could not find the pxvoid instance (therefore, following was not possible). This should now work on most instances.

- some instances could not display posts made before following in the user-feed. Older posts should now also appear in the feed.

Thanks to https://social.wake.st/@liaizon for pointing out this bugs to me

#pxvoid #gallery #art #selfhosting

Do you people think that my VPS with 2GB RAM and 2 CPU cores is enough to run matrix end to end encrypted for me and a few others?

#matrix #selfhosted #selfhosting #technology

ver 0.2.0 🎉
A small new version-change has arrived. There are a few stylistic changes:

- Funky blur in the fixed header
- Small icons for the buttons

But also new features:
- Multi-instance hosting on one server with the nix file
- Follower counter on the top

And there are also some new content-related changes:
- Code of Conduct (I know that I'm currently the only one working on pxvoid, but I'd rather exclude transphobia, homophobia, fascism, and racism right from the start – we want to keep things nice and cozy here )

Have fun with it!

Demo: https://pxvoid.nerdbude.com

Edit: add demo link

#pxvoid #gallery #art #selfhosting

In letzter Zeit mache ich aus gegebenem Anlass wieder mehr #SelfHosting. Natürlich achte ich dabei besonders auf den Stromverbrauch. Nach guten Erfahrungen mit der #ARM64-Architektur selbst bei leistungshungrigen Anwendungen wie Mastodon setze ich jetzt auch zuhause auf auf die aus Smartphones bekannte Technologie.

Es gibt zwar #SBCs mit offenerer Hardware, aber der #RaspberryPi ist überall erhältlich, gut dokumentiert, leistungsfähig und preiswert. Und es gibt ihn mit bis zu 16 GB RAM.

Wer einen Server am Internet betreibt, muss zügig #Sicherheitsupdates einspielen. Viele vergessen aber, laufende Software neuzustarten, damit die neue Version läuft statt der alten. Dabei hilft auf debianbasierten Linux-Systemen das Tool #needrestart, das leider meist nicht vorinstalliert ist.

Auf meinem Raspberry Pi 4 läuft needrestart schon immer korrekt (automatisch nach apt upgrade). Auf meinem Raspberry Pi 5 musste ich aber erst eine Konfigurationsdatei anlegen, wie es der Hauptentwickler hier beschreibt:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/master/README.raspberry.md
Bis dahin behauptete das Tool immer, dass ein reboot nötig sei, weil ein veralteter Linux-Kernel laufe.

Als nächstes will ich auf beiden Raspis die Festplattenverschlüsselung aktivieren. Das ist unter #Raspbian bzw. #RaspberryPiOS leider nicht so einfach wie auf anderen Debian-Systemen. Wenn ihr das geschafft habt: Schreibt gern eure Tipps!

#rpi #rpi5 #raspi #raspberrypi5 #homeserver #howto #til

🚨Hülfe 🚨

Ich hab ein Problem mit Proxmox und meinem Paperless-NGX Container (LXC).

Ich habe in den Container Filebrowser Quantum installiert um den /consume Ordner frei zugeben.

Leider kann ich mit meinem Scanner (Brother ADS 1800W) den Ordner nicht ansprechen. Ich hab alles probiert (Ftp/Sftp/Netzwerk u. Sharepoint) .
Was übersehe ich muss noch irgendwie und wo samba installiert werden oder was auch immer ?

Wäre toll wenn jemand Ahnung und eine Idee hätte ....

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#selfhosting #proxmox #paperlessngx #filebrowser #freigabe #brother #scanner

Vorhin nochmal Ollama und Paperless-AI angeworfen.

Es funktioniert aber das dauuuuuert und der kleine Thinclient geht in die Knie.

#Ollama #paperless #thinclient #selfhosting #proxmox

Small hack I’m using today:

Clipped the first 5 minutes of a YouTube video and converted it to MP3 using a simple `yt-dlp` batch script.

Now streaming it via VLC to my Google Home speaker — a clean way to turn any video into a focused audio snippet.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrcxUqASQg

In this case, it’s the Hanuman Chalisa — a short devotional recitation often used for focus, calm, and mental clarity.

Batch script:

```
@echo off
set URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrcxUqASQg
set START=00:00
set END=05:18

yt-dlp.exe ^
--download-sections "*%START%-%END%" ^
--force-keyframes-at-cuts ^
-x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ^
-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" ^
%URL%
```

Clean, local, no extra apps.

#ytDLP #VLC #GoogleHome #CommandLine #Automation #SelfHosting

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Picture of Lord Hanuman the monkey God in Hindu mythology, in a meditative pose

State of homelab tech 2026: AI + self-hosted software transforming home infra despite hardware scarcity. From hobby to legitimate strategy. The self-hosting renaissance continues. 🏠🤖

#homelab #selfhosting #AI #infrastructure

Source: https://contextwindow.news/article/the-state-of-homelab-tech-2026

Self-hosted AI energy reality check: home box PUE ~30% vs datacenter 90%+. 100W+ idle, fighting your AC. Privacy and control are great, but the energy math matters too. 🏠\u26a1

#selfhosting #AI #energy #homelab #sustainability

Source: Bluesky (Asa / 3fz.org)

After months of procrastination, today I finally took the time to set up an instance of Panoramax in my homelab. The setup was very smooth. Actually, I had booked the full day for it, and by 12PM the instance was publicly available.

At the moment, I'm not accepting contributions (pictures) since I want to make sure everything is running fine before opening to the public.

Kudos to @panoramax for this amazing project!

#Panoramax #homelab #selfhosting #osm

And, we’ve finally done, a mere 10 hours after starting.

Pro tip: Don’t accidentally disable sshd.service before rebooting a headless server.

#selfhosting

It is home sever rebuild day. Wish me luck.... #selfhosting

I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any #socialmedia app.

If one, just one applicant, mentioned their open source or #selfhosting skills, that would be a ticket to an immediate interview.

Here's something really useful I've found.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.

But.

If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.

This is particularly common if you're on a small or single-user instance.

Here's the solution.

First, follow @_followback

It will follow you back.

And then tags.pub bot then reshare all of your posts that use hashtags.

So if you do a post with the hashtag #Fediverse, then @fediverse will share your post.

Here's where the magic happens.

The tags.pub bot will do the same thing to everyone else who follows that followback account.

So if you follow @fediverse, then you'll get a feed of everyone who uses #Fediverse on the Fediverse.

And you'll see their posts even if no-one on your instance follows them.

And it works for all hashtags.

Just put the name of the hashtag, followed by @tags.pub

So @tech follows all posts using #tech, for example.

Or @news follows all posts using #news

#relay #relays #selfhosted #selfhosting #Mastodon #feditip #feditips #fedihelp

Już nieaktualne... Odkryłem https://stalw.art/ i dla mniej ważnych "aliasowych" maili już hostuje i testuje :D Instalacja na nixos i setup super łatwy - wszystko zadziałało out-of-the-box.

Normalnie podpiąłem skrzynkę pod kmail i iOSową apkę mail - zero problemu. Testowe maile poprzechodziły - zero problemu, wszystko ładne opisane w ich guidzie jak pokonfigurować DNSy. Dzisiaj już "na dobre" skończyłem setup wrzucając nowy klucz gpg na yubi - jak podziała stabilnie przez rok i przejdzie kilka upgradów to wszystko przeniose.

#selfhosting

Right, that's it - litestream.io is being to flaky. It's time to migrate my #email server from #sqlite to #PostgreSQL. Pray for me. #selfhosting

And, migration done. Live database on PostgreSQL and replicating to an offsite backup. It would have been straightforward had I not messed up the permissions.

Next step is PITR, but that can wait.

#email #sqlite #PostgreSQL #selfhosting

Ich habe jetzt meine eigene PeerTube-Instanze. Die Installationsanleitung von PeerTube war sehr gut!

https://crystalstream.mk16.de/

#PeerTube #Fediverse #SelfHosting

As lunatics do, I've been setting up a home server for a coworker for the last week or two. I have Plex, Immich, and the -arr stack finally all up and running.

He said he wants to be able to play emulated games up to PS2 on his TV with it. At first, I didn't think it was possible. Then I stumbled onto Games on Whales.

https://games-on-whales.github.io/

I'm still wrapping my head around the config (and I'm not thrilled about the NextcloudAIO-like automatic Docker container spin-ups).. But I think this will do what he wants.

It'll be up to him to find a controller with acceptable latency on a Google Streamer, though.

#SelfHosting #emulation

while you chat happily without interruptions, this is what happens in the arcanechat.me servers! oh no!!! 😱 does anyone has a spare umbrella? ☔

#ArcaneChat #privacy #decentralization #security #humor #meme #joke #selfhosting #sysadmin #server #opensource #autonomy #digitalindependence #sovereignty

#GlitchySocial #Mastodon instance has 5 users now, including me. Only one of them never logged in after registration. It took a blink of an eye to transfer from “hey, I should try to #selfhost a Mastodon instance” to “hey, I’m a service provider now”. Can’t say I’ve got much power but responsibility for sure.

#fediverse #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

#Welcome #Meme #Memes #Fediverse #DirectoryTraversalMemes #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Cat #Cats #CatsOfFediverse #Shitpost #Gravy #IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions

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WELCOME TO THE FEDIVERSE LITERAL CATS ../ WHATEVER RANDOM HARDWARE SOMEONE HAD LAYING AROUND GRAVY IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS

Do you have a basic shared hosting plan? You can now host a #Fediverse instance on that plan. Check out #Starling: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling

#activitypub #Fediverse #LAMP #selfhosting

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How I enhanced my homelab to get connected on the go, without using any other software than wireguard and acme.sh.

This guide walks you through obtaining a wildcard SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt using acme.sh and Cloudflare as the DNS provider.

https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/04/01/roughnecks/wildcard-ssl-certificates-with-acmesh-and-cloudflare/

#acme.sh #Cloudflare #DNS #domain #homelab #LAN #misadventures #selfhosting

La magia del Fediverso
@fediverso@citiverse.it
https://poliverso.org/display/96e44936-70d5a191b12db66c-efa5d67a

Forse scrivere qui di Fediverso è superfluo, tuttavia un po' di divulgazione in merito non guasta mai!dajelinux.it/archivio/fedivers…@internet#social #fediverso #mastodon #web #linux #opensource #selfhosting

Hosting a my small static websites, I wonder if my roughly 40MBit uplink with a static IP is good enough to host it.

#selfhosting

Schönen guten Abend zusammen! Wird Zeit für ein kurzes #Neuhier.
Ich habe endgültig genug von Datenkraken, nervigen Abos und der ewigen Cloud-Abhängigkeit. Deshalb verbanne ich Big Tech gerade Stück für Stück aus meinem Alltag. Die ersten Dienste werfe ich lokal über Docker an und ich fuchse mich immer tiefer in Themen wie #DeGoogle, #SelfHosting und #SimpleX rein.
Suche hier nach Gleichgesinnten, die auch lieber selbst hosten statt mieten.
#Privacy #HomeLab #OpenSource #grapheneos

Zum Thema #serverhygiene: Meine Postfix-Config war wohl etwas in die Jahre gekommen.

Problem: Mein Server erzeugte Bounces und versuchte externe Zustellung (die zwar geblockt ist), aber die Queue lief voll.

Ursache:
`local_recipient_maps = passwd.byname` → System-User wie `mail` wurden als gültige Empfänger akzeptiert.

Fix:
`local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/aliases`

Erkenntnis:
Bei Postfix + Cyrus keine System-User als Empfänger zulassen.

#postfix #mailserver #linux #selfhosting
#gelernt