email is no longer just a communication tool. It has become a surveillance infrastructure. And millions of users are opting out.

Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail have transformed from services into platforms for mass data extraction. Every email is scanned. Every attachment is analyzed. Every communication pattern is logged. This data is sold to advertisers, shared with third parties, and made available to government agencies.

When your email is free, you are not the customer. You are the product.

The response has been a renaissance in self-hosting. Open-source solutions like Mail-in-a-Box, Mailcow, iRedMail, and Poste io have made private email infrastructure accessible without deep technical expertise. What once required a system administrator can now be deployed in hours.

For those not ready for self-hosting, private providers like Proton Mail, Tutanota, Mailfence, and StartMail offer encrypted alternatives built on privacy-first business models rather than data extraction.

The numbers tell the story. Among European SMEs, private email adoption has grown from 12% in 2022 to 35% in 2026. Governments in Germany, France, and Switzerland are migrating official communications to sovereign infrastructure.

This is not a technological trend. It is a political movement for digital sovereignty. Every email you send is a choice between a world where your words are analyzed and stored, and a world where your correspondence remains your own.

The silence in your inbox is no longer silence of consent. It is silence of resistance.

#privacy #email #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #surveillance

Nutzt eigentlich jemand die "Find my Device" App und kann vielleicht aus gemachten Erfahrungen berichten?

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

https://fmd-foss.org/

#android #fdm #smartphone #fdroid #foss #findmydevice #selfhosting #findmyphone #google

💖 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.

How many domains have you registered, total, to date?

#Poll #AskFedi #Domains #Internet #SelfHosting

Is anyone here using NextCloud for extended family chat/photo/whatever?

Thoughts?

#SelfHosting #FamilyNetwork

Oops. It seems my #friendica instance got stuck for more than a week. I was wondering why no-one responded to my posts.

Apologies if you now get all posts from the past 10 days in a row :)

#SelfHosting

Ça bouge dans la salle des serveurs !

Petite mise à jour pour #BentoPDF, #Element, #Gitea, #Mastodon et #Synapse chez #BlablaLinux. Tout est bien huilé et prêt à l'emploi !

Curieux de voir tout ce que je vous héberge ? C'est par ici :
👉 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

On reprend le contrôle, un service à la fois !

#InformatiqueLibre #SelfHosting #OpenSource

For a while, deploying apps meant a familiar ritual: SSH in, pull the repo, pray nothing breaks, repeat for every service.

Manual.

Fragile.

Exhausting.

This week I finally consolidated everything into a proper self-hosted control plane.

The stack:
→ aaPanel as the central dashboard which I heard about from a friend
→ Docker for containerised app isolation (absolute cancer)
→ PostgreSQL for database management (with per-app panels and log visibility)
→ DuckDNS handling dynamic DNS + automated HTTPS via Let's Encrypt (stayed up until 3AM on Sunday for this btw)
→ Netlify on the frontend side cuz it's easy to deploy

The difference is hard to overstate. One dashboard. Full log access across services. Deployments that don't require me to remember 12 steps in the right order at 11pm.

It's not a perfect setup, aaPanel is proprietary-ish and Netlify is clearly not self-hosted, but it's a defenitely a step away from "I'll fix it manually when it breaks" territory.

Curious if anyone here has migrated from this kind of hybrid setup toward something fully FOSS.

Always looking for the next rabbit hole.

- UltraX

#SelfHosting #DevOps #Docker #FOSS #Linux #Infrastructure #HomeServer #OpenSource #Privacy #Sysadmin #Python #javascript #saas

Why run your own Virtual Private Network, in 2026?

I wrote a post unpacking this Q, with a view to pushing folk to reclaim VPN technology in this neo-feudalist era of the Internet, clawing back autonomy (and privacy) from the big VPN providers.

https://courses.nikau.io/2026/03/24/why-run-your-own-vpn/

#selfhosting #privacy #infosec

OpenZiti is a self-hosted zero-trust networking platform that lets you access services without VPNs or exposing ports.
Each connection is identity-based, end-to-end encrypted, and limited per service.

Instead of full network access like traditional VPNs, it only allows access to specific services -- reducing attack surface.

👉 https://github.com/openziti/ziti
👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #ZeroTrust #Networking #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism

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Screenshot of OpenZiti GitHub repository showing: 3.9k stars, build status, Go reference, Discourse forum link, Apache 2.0 license, and description of the zero-trust networking platform.

Envie de l'auto-héberger sur votre Docker/LXC ? Voici mes snippets Compose tout frais sur ByteStash :

Version Persistance (API) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/4f7a1a645f316457803c94cd237ee388
Version Sandbox (Démo) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/dcdcfa327c4d5f666a96b963d19d99de

Projet source sur GitHub : https://github.com/rackulalives/rackula

Amusez-vous bien avec vos baies !

#SelfHosting #Docker #Linux #Rackula #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin #Proxmox

Been playing around with FreshRSS over the weekend. Pretty cool! Especially when combined with morss to convert RSS feeds that are intro only into full text feeds.

But the mobile view is pretty bad! Had to spend some time adding Custom CSS to make it acceptable to me.

Might blog about it soon.

#FreshRSS #RSS #SelfHosting

Here are the changes I made. Very minor, but it does look a lot neater, in my opinion:

https://blog.thms.uk/2026/03/freshrss-mobile?utm_source=mastodon

#FreshRSS #RSS #SelfHosting

Are you #selfhosting your own data? Do you have a data #backup strategy? Recently I have updated my backup setup to be much more robust and flexible. If you wanna check it out, I have made a blog article about it at https://blog.adamhlavacek.com/2026/03/23/my-backup-solution

Alright, I just moved to my new #mastodon instance fraxoweb.social.

Compared to the last one where I was solo #selfhosting ,

I'm going to allow people to join this new one.

For now, the goal is to be Canadian mastodon instance where both #french and #english is used and accepted. #canada

We'll see how that goes.

Self hosters, do you use Cloudflare in front of your hosted services?

#cloudflare #selfhosting #privacy #security

A word of sage advice for all of you homelabbers.

I bring to you, from my decades of experience, my wealth of knowledge, and from the depths of my IT grit this piece of information, that I am sure none of you have ever considered before.

When you build a new system, staging it in your home office where you have access to it for things like, connecting installation media, and displays, and whatnot, and after your lovingly crafted system is ready to be moved to its new home in your rack in the basement.

Take care to transport your system, prepare a port on your switch before you get there, and have an ethernet cable ready. Don't forget to find a free power outlet in your UPS! and be careful not to jostle other systems connections as you connect things.

Then power on your new system with the confidence that it will boot up and be accessible within mere moments because you thought of everything, you know its ready.

Then spend 15 minutes back in your office scratching your head wondering why it didn't come up... And realize...

You forgot to plug in its ethernet cable.

#homelab #selfhosting #IT #sysadmin

FediSuite ist live: Version 1.0.0

FediSuite ist jetzt offiziell live.

FediSuite ist eine Social-Media-Management-Plattform für das Fediverse. Du kannst damit mehrere Accounts zentral verwalten, Beiträge planen, Inhalte veröffentlichen, Statistiken auswerten und verschiedene Fediverse-Plattformen in einem gemeinsamen Workflow nutzen.

Webseite: https://www.fedisuite.com/

Was FediSuite bietet

• Multi-Account-Management für das Fediverse
• Post Scheduling und Publishing
• Analytics und Insights
• Medien-Upload mit Alt-Texten
• Import vorhandener Beiträge
• Plattform-spezifische Regeln und Limits
• Unterstützung für Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Misskey und weitere Plattformen

Open Source und Self-Hosting

Ein zentraler Punkt von FediSuite ist die Möglichkeit zum Self-Hosting.

FediSuite kann selbst betrieben werden und ist damit besonders interessant für:

• Einzelpersonen mit eigener Infrastruktur
• Projekte und Communities
• Organisationen, die mehr Kontrolle über ihren Betrieb wollen

Self-Hosting-Repository:
https://github.com/christinloehner/FediSuite

Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/christinloehner/fedisuite

Docker-Image-Repository für Mitwirkende:
https://github.com/christinloehner/FediSuite-Docker-Image

Hinweis für Self-Hoster

FediSuite ist gerade erst live gegangen. Gerade im Bereich Self-Hosting können noch Fehler oder ungeschärfte Kanten auftreten.

Wenn du FediSuite selbst hostest, freuen wir uns sehr über:

• Tests in echten Umgebungen
• Feedback
• Bugreports
• Beiträge über GitHub

Links

Website:
https://www.fedisuite.com/

App:
https://app.fedisuite.com/

Self-Hosting:
https://github.com/christinloehner/FediSuite

Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/christinloehner/fedisuite

#FediSuite #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Friendica #Misskey #SocialMedia #SocialMediaManagement #Docker #DevOps #WebApp #Linux #Privacy #Decentralization #FOSS #OpenSourceSoftware #IndieDev #Tech #SoftwareLaunch

Restarted my Hytale server, so if anyone's interested in playing, you can connect to the server at zerojay.com. Have fun!

#hytale #selfhosting #gaming

KVM hardware devices have remotely accessible security holes that can cause large problems for many people.

"The nine vulnerabilities impact devices from GL-iNet, Angeet/Yeeso, Sipeed, and JetKVM."
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4147874/that-cheap-kvm-device-could-expose-your-network-to-remote-compromise.html

#infosec #selfhosting

That’ll teach me to #pushtoprodfriday — woke up to a corrupted #email database. Luckily it was my replica so no data was lost. However, the issue currupted most of my PITR lineage, so I need to wipe and reseed. #sigh #selfhosting.

Our blog is live — and so is its first article.

Helix wanted to try their hand at a physical DIY project for once — most of their work is purely software. The goal: build a portable temperature & humidity monitor from scratch to tackle a real problem at home: poor insulation and rooms humid enough to grow mold.

ESP32 + DHT22 + a few euros of AliExpress parts. The article covers the circuit design, prototyping, and some tricks along the way. It's a work in progress — more updates coming as the project evolves.

🔗 https://blog.foobardevs.com/posts/diy-esp32-temp-hum-monitor/

#DIY #ESP32 #IoT #SelfHosting

Brian Krebs shared my LinkedIn post today.
5,693 unique visitors.
19,632 requests.
0 failed requests.
171MB served.
Hardware: a ThinkPad T440p from 2014.
Cost: €5/month.
The closet held. The author is still processing.

#SelfHosting #Privacy #HomeServer

Hallo liebe Fedizens und #sysadmin s
Hat wer von euch zufällig ein Paar Rackschienen für einen #Supermicro 1HE #Server (CSE-815 oder kompatibel), die nicht mehr benötigt werden? 👀

Meine Universal Gleitschienen für's Rack sind leider 8cm zu kurz und deswegen liegt der Server gerade nur lose im Rack :/

Am Server ist "die Hälfte" der Rackschiene bereits verbaut, nur der Teil für das Rack selbst fehlt, wo die Kiste dann eingehangen wird.

#kleinanzeigen #fedihelp #selfhosting #berlin #gesucht

So I’ve set up my private Paperless-NGX server in a FreeBSD Jail. Quite happy about it.
Special thanks to grembo@ for the great pkg and the even greater man page (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=paperless-ngx&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-ports)

Now I need to find a proper scanner I can mass-feed: our konica Bizhub 450i at work is such a piece of crap.

#PaperlessNGX #FreeBSD #Jail #SelfHosting

A conversation started with:
“Is there an AirDrop for Windows?”
My answer was Tailscale, though that undersells it a bit.
What I like most is that it replaced several annoying parts of remote access for me:
• less messing with port forwarding
• less dealing with unreliable sync tools
• less thinking about network setup in general
Now I mostly just connect to the machine I need, by name, and keep moving.
I wrote up how I use it here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/you-should-be-using-tailscale
#Tailscale #Networking #SelfHosting

Me and a couple of friends have been running our own root server for literal decades, and the hardware is getting a bit long in the tooth, so time for an upgrade.

The question right now is which storage configuration to pick, it's mostly a choice between RAID0-ish(*) over 2 x 8 TB disks or RAID5 over 3 x 4 TB. What does the fediverse think?

(*) not a live RAID0, but a nightly mirror from main disk to backup disk

#selfhosting #linux #sysadmin

Vertraut ihr eure Passwörter wirklich gerne Cloud-Anbietern an? 🤔 Nach den kürzlich entdeckten Sicherheitslücken in populären Passwortmanagern gibt es gute Gründe, skeptisch zu sein.

Zum Artikel (€): https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Passbolt-Den-europaeischen-Open-Source-Passwortmanager-selbst-hosten-11172920.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#passbolt #selfhosting #opensource #passwortmanager #datenschutz

#HomeLab, #SelfHosting, #DevOps, #LLM, #AtProto

So if you happened to have an extra M1 8gb Mac mini, would you install a small LLM (and which one would you use) or would you host your own AtProto PDS with it?

RE: https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/reply/the-local-tech-neighbourhood

Fabio compares the "just use Linux" guys and "just self-host it" guys to professional and hobbyist bakers who tell people with other priorities to "just make your own bread" in a hypothetical scenario where Big Bread would start to charge subscription fees.

In such a world, hobbyist bakers could offer their friends to make bread for them at modest prices, perhaps even teach those interested. They wouldn't tell them all to learn baking and buy the machines and to learn gardening and to grow their own tomatoes because nobody can do everything.

We computer people should start thinking like that: Letting our 10–20 friends in on our DIY Netflix server or Nextcloud instance for a few bucks to cover electricity costs. It's a win-win situation for everyone.

#surveillance #BigTech #SelfHosting

If you self-host services on the internet, you may have seen waves of crawlers hammering your websites without mercy.

To annoy them and protect my services from DDoS, I decided to setup an iocaine instance, along with NSoE... And it worked... Too well.

Recently, they started flooding my VPS so much it started choking.
If you followed me here on Fedi, you saw my journey to find a way to relieve my server.

This is a rant about LLM crawlers, and some observations & conclusions, along with some techniques to help you protect your own services.

Read it here: https://xaselgio.net/posts/26.poisoning-knowledge/

Edit: A follow-up is now available here: https://xaselgio.net/posts/26-1.addendum-poisoning-knowledge

#selfHosting #iocaine #indieWeb

So, as planned, I published a follow-up / addendum blogpost about crawlers overwhelming my services.

It adds a few details about what happened since I put the rate limiting in place, provides an analysis of the attack sources (spoiler: big cloud providers), and some technical details about how everything works.
It also adds a few clarifications that were missing from previous post.

Read it here: https://xaselgio.net/posts/26-1.addendum-poisoning-knowledge

(I also edited the previous post to mention the follow-up)

#selfHosting #iocaine #indieWeb

#GlitchySocial #Matrix server now has #WhatsApp and #Signal bridges available for all its users. But I also decided to make the server closed, because maintaining #Element stack with bridges is a pain in the ass, so it’s better to have only a few users I know and trust.

https://www.glitchy.social/

#SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #homelab

New blogpost:

"Musings on 'digital sovereignty'"

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts, before I forgot them.

The more I think about it, the less clear the whole thing seems...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/musings-on-digital-sovereignty/

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #SelfHosting

Thinking of setting up a mail server.

I really want to avoid ending up blacklisted, does anyone have any advice about running their own mail server?

please boost.

#askfedi #selfhost #selfhosting

New Blog post out now!

I'm talking a bit about my progess of this months project and about the new one for April.

5 Minute read time, nothing big but I think I covered the most important points.

Check it out and let me hear what you think about it!

https://blog.spoljarevic.sh/project-for-april-zammad-quadlets/

#it #sysadmin #podman #quadlets #ansible #podmanquadlets #projects #coding #troubleshooting #dns #blog #writing #story #selfhosting #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource

I haven't used #SynologyNAS for a long time, and today I decided to check the #SynologyPhotos release notes to see what new features were added during that period.

It's nothing. The last new feature was added in version 1.8.0-10070, when I was still using it. Almost a year ago, on April 16 2025.

It seems that #Synology is no longer suitable for personal use.

#homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #NAS #Photos

I'm looking for a community management tool I could #selfhosting

Published on 2026-03-18 04:35

https://lemmy.world/post/44419936

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

#SelfHosting