@eleitl old reddit was a healthy place. I joined reddit about a decade ago back when it used to be a palce to find communities ran by people passionate about it. then slowly as the enshittification began the passionate herd left. I hope the fediverse would become a goto social hub for people in future. This place has good fundamentals.
@MonkeMischief oh i agree. Setting up an instance is not easy. And choosing a place on the fediverse can be tricky based on how you decide to interact over here. For example I’m not on lemmy but I use my hubzilla instance to interact with the communities I am passionate about which I find is really cool.
And it does take some time to really understand how this allworks together but once you understand it’s fairly easy to use and navigate.
@shnizmuffin I agree. I am not complaining, just saying what could be an ideal scenario. Someone on the reddit thread complained about their instance becoming too large too soon and they had to shut down, so was reflecting on that.
@Saiwal For instance specialized communities like #[1](https://selfhosted.forum/communities) should be made use of instead of having all the communities on a single instance. This would be more sustainable and cost effective for the admins too.
I think federated networks are healthier and better in the long run. Also there should be more smaller instances so the load is not too heavy to bear for any one instance.
@Black616Angel Also for storage, you can define message retention (1 year or similar) so your storage would also not balloon over time. In my opinion chat is ephemeral in nature.
I’ve been using a self hosted matrix server for the apst year, no complaints so far and since a lot of technical rooms already exist on other matrix servers, interoperability is a big plus. Also element mobile app is pretty decent but there are plenty of other alternative apps too.
yes, i think what you need is https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets
@NuXCOM_90Percent thats strange. i’ve been on alpha for a while and it is working and improving with every release.
nextcloud news alpha is working and people are working on making it usable again. sad state of affairs, nextcloud just pushes updates breaking apps without bothering to ensure compatibility.
I found pelican to be quite simple to start with and depending on how deep you want to go it can be quite customizable. Being proficient in python helps.
I would suggest to familiarize yourself with basics of networking and linux first, something like freecodecamp has decent tutorials and you would learn a lot from just a few chapters (#[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQR5rTSshw)%2C) and there are also some youtubers who have self hosting tutorials that you can follow along and learn (Jim’s garage is my favorite since i learnt a lot from him and his discord channel is also a helpful place for discussions, questions, etc.). So join such communities and you’ll learn at your pace.
vaultwarden syncs your passwords locally so even if your server is down the passwords remain available on your device. And it is a wonderful password manager, you can share passwords with your family, have TOTPs, passkeys.
@tofubl tailscale is a mesh network that connects your clients together. and those clients would run a tailscale client on them. There is an additional option of sharing the local network that your device is on with your main tailscale network, thus connecting all your home devices to your private self hosted server network.
This page has more details along with a video that goes in detail: #[1](https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets)
This can be achieved with tailscale using subnet routing. your local devices (ebook readers) can access your private servers if they are on a device thats on your tailnet (your phone).
@Sunny’ 🌻 that must not happen, did you remove the custom location from before? The above is working with my pihole setup
code formatting is messed up :/
Add the following in Advanced tab
location / { return 301 /admin;}location /admin { proxy_pass [url=http://<Pi-hole-IP>:<Pi-hole-Port>/admin;]http://<Pi-hole-IP>:<Pi-hole-Port>/admin;[/url] proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;}
replace the IP and port
this issue is an ongoing discussin over at NPM too, very mysterious
https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/issues/3982
@eleitl hopefully good sense will prevail over time. I always enjoyed having a personal website and federated protocols allowed me to do so while simultaneously having the ability to stay connected to the rest of the federated web which by itself is a great model. Add to it no ads, algorithms or engagement shenanigans this is going to be a healthier way to connect. But it’ll grow slowly since the learning curve is quite steep for the average person.