Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

#selfhosting #diyhosting #hosting

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The UK's CMA had to legislate that transparency into existence by force. Nine months to comply, and the underlying incentive to keep you inside the walled garden is untouched. Full piece: https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/why-you-should-own-your-search-engine/
#SelfHosting #IsleOfMan

#solar #offgridsolar #balconysolar #balkonsolar #diysolar #selfhosting #solarhosting

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https://deltalima.org/blog/custom.php?site=system-stats ☀️ Solar system 2W ☀️ Solar 7W 🔌 Load 100% 🔋 Battery [www-data@minix-n4100.dmz.nukular.netz:~]# ./system-stats --solar Refreshed: 26.7.2026, 19:08:33 Solar 1 ------------------------------ PV power : 1.6 W PV current : 0.1 A PV voltage : 14.61 V Battery voltage : 13.35 V Load power : 5.07 W Solar 2 ------------------------------ PV power : 0 W PV current : 0 A PV voltage : 0 V Battery voltage : 13.36 V Load power : 2.13 W ============================= PV power all: 1.6 W Load power all: 7.2 W Battery charge: 100 % =============================

I want to get back into #SelfHosting and be #SelfHosted (Yes, used both tags!), I've fallen out of the habit and my home server has been offline for 3+ years now but I wanna turn that around.

Question though, ISP-provided routers tend to be wank and I think the play is to get your own networking equipment. What's the go-to options for home hosting?

I don't think I need anything mega fancy, but my previous setup involved using PiHole for DNS to point local devices at my home server on my LAN; it would be nice if I could do that at the router. (Is that normally the done thing? Mind you I was also using that pihole for DHCP which I'm certain is a bad idea)

I've heard UniFi is basically the go-to option for this; but I thought I'd ask in case there's other options I should consider. Cheers!

@h3artbl33d I have, more than once, had to turn the hotspot on my phone on so I could download an ISO of #pfSense to reflash my #router.

#selfhosted #selfhosting

If you're interested in starting your own Mastodon server or other kinds of online services, you might want to check out my other website:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

I've just revamped the site to feature options for all tech skill levels (including none!). You can follow this account for the site's latest updates:

➡️ @homegrown

Here's an easy-to-understand tutorial from the site about creating your own Mastodon server:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

If you are #selfhosting / #homelabbing: you have my utmost respect. Do not trust other parties to have your back - because they don't.

However, few words to the wise: if you operate a minimalist setup - eg everything running in VMs on a single host: please do consider the consequences of downtime.

You probably don't want to run your critical services on one machine without a fallback. If those services include your smarthome foundation, DNS and firewalling: you don't want to troubleshoot in the dark because everything is down and you can't even turn on the light anymore.

You aren't the first nor won't he the last to learn this lesson when disaster strikes though

🔧 The hosts are back. The infrastructure opinions are strong.

📻 Ep. 11 — Episode 11: AI, Burnout, and Everything After

Linus Torvalds' about-face on AI in the Linux kernel, Jellyfin's leadership shakeup amid AI tensions, and running Hermes agents against home infrastructure.

#bitflipshow #Ai #Linux #Kernel #LinusTorvalds #OpenSource #Jellyfin #Hermes #Turnstone #SelfHosting #Llm

🔗 https://bitflip.show/11

I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled.

So I built a TV station instead.

ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with schedules and logos. It ships for Linux, Windows and macOS. My server runs FreeBSD.

Turns out the entire porting effort was one conditional. The code asked "is this Linux?" when it meant "is VAAPI available?" VAAPI is userspace, FreeBSD has it, and .NET has had OSPlatform.FreeBSD for years.

One || later: Intel hardware transcoding in a Bastille jail that can see exactly one GPU and one read-only dataset.

I now have a sci-fi channel. I don't know what's on tonight. That's the point.

https://blog.hofstede.it/building-my-own-tv-station-ersatztv-in-a-freebsd-jail-with-intel-hardware-transcoding/

#FreeBSD #ErsatzTV #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #Jails #dotnet

Practical guide to personal knowledge management: choose between Obsidian, Logseq, and DokuWiki, understand PKM methods like Zettelkasten and PARA, and build self-hosted knowledge systems.

#Obsidian #Logseq #DokuWiki #Self-Hosting #SelfHosting #Knowledge-Management

https://www.glukhov.org/knowledge-management/

I am pretty amazed, how fast and power efficient even those older Intel N4100 Mini PCs are.
My old Wyse 3040 unfortunatelly died recently, so I had to migrate everything to the more power hungry N4100 system.
But turns out, when you disable the TurboBoost, it's average power consumption is around 1,5 - 2,5W running with Debian and a Podman container with my Website, and some custom scripts for fetching stats by bluetooth and usb for the BMS and Solar Charger. Neat!
#selfhosting #solar #diy

Does anyone have a favorite guide for de-googling their lives? I’ve got a personal Google workspace account and I’ve lived with the ick long enough. Time to eject and go some combination of indie, open source and self-hosted. #lazyweb #degoogle #selfhosting #askfedi

I already have a pikapods.com account, which means I could run a nextcloud instance for about $7/month (to start, no idea how much it would be if I actually imported everything) and replace GMail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc. So, umm, maybe I don't need a guide, I just need willpower.

The scariest thing is probably going through my password manager and figuring out EVERYWHERE I've used Login With Google and migrating those to a password.

#lazyweb #degoogle #selfhosting #askfedi

One XDA writer added up what he canceled, cloud storage, photo backup, password syncing, document drives, and landed at almost $1,100 a year, replaced by a single power-efficient mini PC humming in a corner.

#technews #technology #diy #homelab #degoogle #privacy #opensource #selfhosting

https://casually.onl/article?slug=self-hosting-cloud-got-expensive

RefluXFS (CVE-2026-64600) is a race-condition in the Linux kernel's XFS copy-on-write path.
(Kernel updates are available.)

On an XFS filesystem with reflink enabled (Default on RHEL and similar, plus Amazon Linux), if you win a race during the copy-on-write remap lets the unprivileged local user overwrite the on-disk contents of any readable file on that volume including /etc/passwd or a SUID-root binary.

What makes this wild: the changes persist across reboots, produce no kernel logs, bypass SELinux and Kernel Address Space Randomization (KASLR).

PoCs reliably exploiting the vuln.

Check if you are in scope:
# xfs_info / | grep -i "reflink=1"

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

#permacomputing #SelfHosting #moo #LambdaMOO #snac

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Two IKEA kitchen cabinets bolted together. Metal grates divide the cabinet, and on the grates are things like a network switch , a laptop, a small desktop server and a UPS.

AdminForge is a German-language website all about self-hosting free open online services:

🌱 https://adminforge.de (in German)

You can follow them at:

🌱 @adminforge (in German)

They also provide a number of libre online services for people who don't want to self-host them.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Deutsch

If you want to give phanpy a try, I run an instance of it here.

#fediverse #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting

[Decentralized, federated platform for dog owners]

I haven’t been able to get this idea out of my head for a while now. 😩😁

Why are there centralized platforms for dog owners—but no open, decentralized alternative? 🤔

What if clubs, animal shelters, dog training schools, or local communities could run their own instances while still being interconnected, based on ActivityPub, similar to the Fediverse? 😃

Possible features could include:
🐶 Dog profiles
🚶 Walks & meetups
📍 Dog parks & local spots
⚠️ Poisoned bait and hazard alerts
🔎 Missing & found dogs

The focus would be on data sovereignty, local communities, and open standards instead of a centralized platform. 😉

Attached is a preliminary concept diagram to make the idea more tangible.

I’d be interested to know:
Would you use something like this, or even help build it? ⁉️ 🙄

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Dogs #DogLovers #AnimalWelfare #Community #Idea

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Infographic in DIN A4 format titled “Dog Network – Decentralized. Local. For Dogs and Their Owners.” The infographic visualizes the concept of a decentralized dog platform based on ActivityPub. At the center, a network diagram connects several independent communities (e.g., animal shelters, dog training schools, local communities, or breed groups) that communicate with one another via a federated infrastructure. On the right, a smartphone app with a map view is shown as an example. Surrounding it are potential features: dog profiles, walks and meetups, warnings about hazards and poisoned bait, dog parks and local spots, missing or found dogs, as well as groups and discussion forums. Other sections explain data protection, data sovereignty, self-hosting, open-source technologies, and an optional, privacy-friendly meeting mode that uses intentionally imprecise location data. The design primarily uses shades of green and natural tones, featuring illustrations of dog owners, dogs, maps, and network symbols. The graphic serves as an initial concept sketch and does not represent a finished product or final design.

Let’s do this a different way actually. Which of these are #SelfHosting (pick all that that apply)

@caleb I think if you're paying someone to host an instance of something and not using a BigCo's service, it's #SelfHosting. People can be pedantic if they want, but if you're going to the trouble to pay to run it yourself, even if you have someone keeping the lights on, it counts.

Do we still call it #SelfHosting if it’s on #Heroku or similar? There’s the extreme view that to self host you must run the server but that seems like overkill.

Do we still call it self-hosting if it’s something like masto.host?

Tentatively I’d say yes for Heroku (managed server) and no for masto.host (managed _hosting_).

Is there an #PHP alternative to #mastodon and #gotoSocial servers for #selfhosting ?

Todays FOSS Drama served to you by @Codeberg

Tl;dr: Codeberg wants to exclude "vibed"/" LLM'd projects from its platform by means of TOU, hilarity ensues.

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 (via, also some discussion)

Adding one here: Burden of proof and how do you sufficiently prove or refute the "vibed" nature of any given work without falling to arbitrary / unpredictable results.
One more argument for self-hosting.

Also interesting to projects such as #bizzfed or #nolto both of which would likely or clearly be banned from the platform now.

#fossdrama #foss #hackernews #opensource #LLMs #tos #codeberg #intellectualproperty #selfhosting

Hey self-hosting people!

Is there any agreed collective term for distros like @yunohost or @freedomboxfndn which are specifically designed to turn a PC into a self-hosting server with a graphical interface for setting up services?

A self-hosting OS? Something else?

#AskFedi #SelfHosting

Linux Microblog update:

My spouse fixed my other franken-rebuilt Dell Optiplex ProxMox node by editing a network config file to detect the new default card name that came with the new motherboard.

While their approach was simpler, faster, and less destructive, my approach...uh...required less planning.

#linux #microblog #dell #optiplex #proxmox #selfhosting #probablyANetworkThing

A newbie's guide to #selfHosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up

Two previously disclosed CVEs are actively-weaponized kernel root exploits. GhostLock CVE-2026-43499, and Bad Epoll CVE-2026-46242, are both public highly reliable exploits. Ghostlock also appears to enable a container escape and Bad Epoll is also working on Android.

Both are fixed in kernel 6.12.96-1.
If you have local users, upgrade the kernel & boot it.

BRB have to reboot :)

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

Good morning Fedi friends,

I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

My way of coping?

Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.

Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting

@heysupratim

I've been as happy as anyone to enjoy cloud services that - until recently - had unbeatable prices and untouchable uptimes.

Lately, they simply don't compete with three used Dell Optiplexes plugged into a cheap surge protector, in my closet.

This feels like a silly state for things, but here we are.

#cloud #selfhosting #wtf

#askfedi #blog #homelab #selfhosting #linux trying to gauge if I should put any serious time/energy into this. I have built my own rack solution (rack, chassis, accessories) for consumer grade hardware (it follows enterprise spec).

I am considering #opensource under the GPL of all my designs so that others can build their own commodity racks with consumer grade hardware. I'm thinking I'll blog post each of the major sections and push to #codeberg each time.

Anyone have an interest in these?

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Server rack designs.

📣​ New post 📝​

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)"

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

Basically a visual guide showing how to install #GoToSocial via #YunoHost and set it up with some basic security.

⏱️​ From start to finish, it should take about 25-30 minutes.

It's my act of resistance against tech bros... I love the idea of teaching people how to self-host their own social media instance, connected to the fediverse ✌️​❤️​ ​

Thank you @yunohost  and @gotosocial for empowering us all!

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #newbie #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #resist

I'm on #XMPP again! This time using @ejabberd

yehor@chat.glitchy.social

#jabber #ejabberd #selfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #homelab

How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks

Here's a dang overview of how I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks! Check it out if that's your jam.

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/07/21/how-i-self-host-my-ebooks-and-audiobooks/

#Bookstodon #eBooks #Calibre #SelfHosting

For a small two node active-passive proxmox cluster, where two VMs should failover when one node goes / stays offline (after a power outage or so), which storage would you recommend?
I'm using consumer SSDs, so ZFS filesystem replication is not really an option because the TBW is very limited (250GB ~150TBW).

VMs in question are Mailserver / Web Loadbalancer for about 30 accounts.

#selfhosting #fedihelp #sysadmin #admin #mastoadmin #homelab #diyhosting

What would be your fanless + headless mini PC of choice for a FreeBSD server?
1x 1Gbps Eth port, 32GB RAM minimum, 6 CPU cores minimum, 1x NVMe + 1x 2.5 SATA

#fanless #selfhosting #freebsd

I just updated @OpenCloud LTS from production version 4 to production version 7. It was scary, but successful.

I also found that my #Collabora Office instance admin endpoint was exposed to the public internet with the default admin and password. It is unbelievably embarrassing.

#securityHole #security #OpenCloud #homelab #selfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost

"Twasn't me..."

"Well... it was teh case's fault!!!11!!!"

🤡

If you ever wanted a good reason to keep around your failed hard drives, scavenging screwed up logic boards is a good reason. Ha!

#Linux #RunBSD #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Hardware #HDD

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Image of a HDD with the logic board removed and showing broken and bent interface pins.

@lumi @mrmasterkeyboard consider #XMPP+#OMEMO then?
- decentralized ( #SelfHosting )
- real #E2EE (with #SelfCustody!)
- Established for long time.
- Works well over @torproject / #Tor.

For #VoiceChat & #Videocalling, there's #Mumble & #JitsiMeet…

For #GroupChats, there's #IRC, …