RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@siege/116044775248606478

Speaking of: What is a good self-hosted alternative that I should try to convince my gaming buddies (who are already tired of me yapping about free software, Linux and #SelfHosting) to use instead? Must have working clients for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Are you interested in #gopher and #SelfHosting

I could use some like-minded people in my XMPP/IRC chat :)

We also do Counter-Strike 1.6 on Saturdays.

https://gopher.someodd.zip/0/services/irc.md

hat.sh lets you encrypt files locally in your browser using modern cryptography — nothing is uploaded or stored.

Perfect for securing files before sharing or using cloud storage. Open-source and self-hostable.

👉 https://github.com/sh-dv/hat.sh

👉 More tools like this : https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #Encryption #OpenSource #SelfHosting #DigitalSecurity

CrossPaste is a free, open-source clipboard sync tool for Windows, macOS & Linux.

Copy anywhere, paste across devices in real time. Supports text, images, files, HTML, with peer-to-peer LAN sync & end-to-end encryption. No cloud, no tracking.

👉 https://github.com/CrossPaste/crosspaste-desktop

👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosting #FOSS #DeGoogle

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CrossPaste: Universal Pasteboard Across Devices

Happy Data Protection Day!

20th anniversary online event: https://www.coe.int/web/data-protection/data-protection-day

#Data #DataProtection #DataPrivacy #Privacy #InfoSec #InformationSecurity #CyberSecurity #Encryption #E2EE #Security #PasswordManager #SelfHost #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Linux #DataSovereignty #CouncilOfEurope #CoE #EDPS #EuropeanDataProtectionSupervisor #DPD #DPD2026 #OpenPGP #PGP #GnuPG #GPG #VeraCrypt #Tomb #LUKS #AES #P2P #VPN #LetsEncrypt #Argon2 #Tor #XMPP #OMEMO #TorBrowser #Tails #PrivacyBadger #JShelter

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Data Protection Day banner.

About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

@eff That's encouragement to get into self-hosting if anyone needed the bump.

#selfhosting

I have been re-architecting my self-hosted setup for public-facing websites, including my Mastodon server and my own personal website (linked in my Mastodon bio and verified). Watching the logs, I am getting a ton of traffic to my personal website from Mastodon clients, presumably due to the verified link in my bio. I'd never realized it was so much! Not a problem, just interesting (to me).

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

On Sunday I finished painting the our new mechanical room, which means I can finally finish up all the wiring - both electrical and networking. There are over 20 power outlets, and just about as many CAT6 ports in this one small room. I have a second patch panel on the way so I can get the rack tidied up too.

#building #networking #electrical #selfhosting #server

New blogpost:

"Enabling a user's processes to continue after the user disconnects their ssh session, using loginctl enable-linger"

There's hardly any content to this blogpost, since the title rather says it all.

What's the opposite of "clickbait"?

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/01/enabling-a-users-processes-to-continue-after-the-user-disconnects-their-ssh-session-using-loginctl-enable-linger/

#FOSS #systemd #Linux #selfhosting

The "Quantified Self" movement started as hackers trying to optimize their biology. It ended up as a corporate surveillance grid designed to measure your compliance.

Tomorrow for Big Fan subscribers on Patreon, we are deconstructing the biometric gold rush. We're looking at how raw accelerometer data can fingerprint your central nervous system and why your insurance company is so desperate to give you a free Fitbit.

https://www.patreon.com/cw/SudoBurnToast

#Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #OpSec #HealthData

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Podcast cover art for "IMPRACTICAL PRIVACY" in large, glitch-styled blue text at the top. Below it, the episode title reads, "MINDFUL OR MONITORED? THE DARK SIDE OF WELLNESS APPS." The central illustration shows a translucent, blue circuit-patterned human figure meditating in a lotus pose on a tatami mat. A smartphone with a green "Daily Streak" checkmark is prominently displayed in front of their chest. Several black, tentacle-like cables with attached surveillance cameras, microphones, and padlocks extend from a dark cloud labeled "DATA BROKERS" and "INSURERS" above, connecting to the meditating figure and the smartphone. The background is split between a serene Japanese garden on the left and a dark server room with blinking red lights on the right. The name "Sudo" is in a white script font in the bottom right corner.

#SelfHosting week 0:
Phase 0. Choosing domain name for self hosting: plusbrothers.online seems available. the .net is my main website based on #WordPress
Considering also plusbrothers.community but who knows if it's possible. Something that warns users that's the same site but with other purposes.
What to do there: Mastodon instance with more than 500 characters if possible. Then Castopod, and maybe a WordPress to transfer English blog there.
Finally, choosing the most appropriate VPS server where to install #YunoHost currently confronting most famous VPS vendors' websites user interface for #accessibility - this is a showcase for customer care. Less accessible means less disability-friendly, that means "I'd prefer you don't come to us". Hostinger has an accessibility statement but it's very superficial and maybe copy-pasted from a template just because obliged by european laws, not for real care.

#mastodon #fediverse #server #vps #linux #instanz #frage #selfhosting #fediadmin #fediadmins

I've written about this before I think, finally got pissed off not having music to listen on work laptop and got around to installing Navidrome (and using headscale/tailscale to hide it behind a web proxy).

Mostly its been very cool to be able to groove to my own stuff at work. The big downside has been finding out how much stuff I have from before about 5 years ago is just tagged really badly. Having "fun" with some home written scripts along with beets to fix things.

#Selfhosting #Music

Yunohost is cool #selfhosting

https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/about_self_hosting/

My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 2 🎄

Today's donation of $50 go to Daniel García, maintainer of the Vaultwarden project.

Read more about Vaultwarden and why I'm sponsoring it in my blog: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/

#opensource #selfhosting #vaultwarden #bitwarden #donation #AdventOfDonations

I also want to add: I hope this doesn't discourage people from messing around and trying things.

If you're new to homelabs and selfhosting it totally makes sense that these are one and the same thing, my warning isn't a "you MUST" but a "please consider" kind of message.

If anyone wants help or advice what makes most sense in their personal context, feel free to shoot me a DM

I would only encourage people to start homelabbing and #selfhosting; both to learn, to break free, and to have fun.

pro tip: a Homelab and Selfhosted infra are two different things.

If you use your #homelab for #selfhosting your personal stuff, one of two things happens:

- you can no longer use your homelab as homelab and for experimentation

- your selfhosted infra is constantly offfline

Selfhosted infra should be seen as a PRODUCTION environment, which homelabs are not.

It should have automated backups, and ideally receive automated updates for security; you should avoid touching it as much as possible.

Dear Fedi friends,

I just hit "publish" on my blog post "A newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements". It's here if you wanna read it:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

This guide is intended for true newbies who are curious about self-hosting some essential digital services. I'm hoping to dispel some myths about self-hosting and make it appear accessible to all. Well, at least to people curious about it but hesitant to get started because they think it's too complicated. That was me up to a year ago.

Special thanks and shout-out to @ilja for setting my journey in motion. And eternal gratitude to @yunohost for the way they are empowering us all with the tools to self-host

#MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #BigTech #rebellion #digitalsovereignty #NextCloud

Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is all about XMPP.

Snikket (https://snikket.org/) is an easy-to-install, and easy-to-administer, XMPP server. It is designed for families and other small groups. The apps for Android and iOS (based on Conversations, I think) are great.

Dino (https://dino.im/) is my desktop XMPP client of choice.

Profanity (https://profanity-im.github.io/) is a terminal / console XMPP client, which is incredibly convenient.

Why not have a fun festive project of setting up an XMPP-based chat server for you and your family and friends?

#XMPP #FOSS #SelfHosting

Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting