Hello to all of you people of mastodon! 🤗
This is my #introduction
Here I will share stuff and links that I would like more people to know, I will also try to write some reflexions and though on my projects. I live in Normandy, France. My current topics of interests are various: #programming #bike #osm #climatechange #selfhosting #freeSoftware #linux #maps #openstreetmap #wikidata #rust #python
I speak french 🇫🇷 and english 🇬🇧 .
selfhosting
Nachdem ich nun schon auf meinem neu installierten Mastodon Server präsent bin, möchte ich euch nicht vorenthalten, wie ich das gemacht habe.
Eine Anleitung findet ihr in meinem Notebook: https://info.jyrgi.de/services/mastodon/index.html
I turned a tiny #Mac mini into my own #Mastodon server—secure, low‑maintenance, and running like a dream. Here’s the full build, from #Docker to #Cloudflare Tunnel, and why #SelfHosting doesn’t have to be a headache.
We've launched a new project:
Arcticons Selfhosted. An icon set for your favorite self-hostable software. Created by @stratself, it's our first project to fully debut on Codeberg.
Check it out on our fancy new site:
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#arcticons #codeberg #icons #iconpack #selfhosting #selfhost
If you are thinking about tinkering with your homelab, but are new to it or not sure what you’re doing, we’d be happy to help.
We are an authorized vendor or partner for some cool products:
👉 @1password password management
👉 Duo MFA and SSO
👉 @mikrotik networking hardware
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All consultations are free, and we’ll give any Fedi-friends a sweet deal on anything else! 
Email sales @ sasquatchnetworks.com or DM us with any questions you might have!
#techsupport #homelab #networking #server #cloud #linux #sysadmin #selfhosting #1password #mikrotik
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#bookmark: reiver/retejo: retejo is a next-generation single-user static web-site server, that is designed to work with any forgejo server (such as Codeberg) and provides built-in support for Markdown and the Social Web (i.e., ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, the Fediverse, etc).You can think of retejo as an alternative to Codeberg Pages and GitHub Pages.One nice thing about retejo is that, it isn't just a web-site server, bu… https://codeberg.org/reiver/retejo #fediverse #selfhosting
All https://fedihost.co #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.4.7
Thank you!
Learn more about this release here:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.7
Asked my fellow nerds where to migrate from #NixOS, considering it's being overtaken by fascists, and there's no realistic way out of it. Here's what they came up with.
- Desktop: Opensuse Tumbleweed. Fairly new packages, rolling release, atomic updates with easy rollbacks, thanks to package manager and BTRFS snapshots.
- Dotfile manager: Chezmoi. Natively integrates with Git, has templating, integration with secrets managers, age.
- Service management: Cockpit. Not declarative, but a GUI; I'll take it. Provides handle to all server ops: updating packages, managing systemd services, managing containers, etc.
- Fleet management: Kubernetes on Talos Linux. Needs decent hardware and multiple machines, and is somewhat complex, so you'll know if you need it.
Share your other suggestions! Let's help each other migrate from a fascist distro.
Una pequeña nube en la gran nube
«No existe la nube. Solo es el computador de otra persona» Creo que ya todos deben haber leído esa frase en alguna parte, ya sea en una polera, un sticker o un meme. Lo que dice, de manera bien simplificada es verdad. Lo que usualmente conocemos como la nube es, básicamente, una red computadores conectados entre sí. Pero ese «computador de otra […]
🔗 https://altgr.xyz/2025/10/05/una-pequena-nube-en-la-gran-nube/
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Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!
I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.
In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more
My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com
One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!
People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...
Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.
Anyone have experience using #Snac2 for a small activitypub instance? Currently I use #gotosocial which is great but I'm curious about other options. Running a second instance with a different domain for friends or a second account is appealing to me.
Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈
File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.
So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.
I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.
How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.
The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.
Time went like this:
1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)
4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade
5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)
7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install
9m30s in: post installation complete
11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.
14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳
Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting
On Oct 20, AWS went down and took 1,000+ services with it. One DNS error, one data center, millions affected.
The internet wasn't meant to be this centralized. You have alternatives.
https://cloud68.co/blog/the-aws-outage-and-what-it-really-means-for-our-internet
Dear Fedi friends,
If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."
🔗: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni
It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).
My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):
"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.
It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.
We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.
I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."
I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.
If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy
All https://fedihost.co #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.5.0
Big new changes are the new quote posts and remote replies fetching.
Learn more about this release here:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/
It's been a while!
All https://fedihost.co/ #PeerTube instances have been upgraded to v7.3.0
Find out what's new in 7.3.0
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases
ps: #Mastodon v4.5.0 to follow shortly!
It's really frustrating to see places like /r/selfhosted just being bombarded with "I made this project..." AI generated posts for AI generated slop projects. I used to find new stuff to play with daily and now... the flood is so great that it's murdering the subreddit. Ugh.
Just shared a new guide! 📸🎥 Learn how to self-host Pixelfed and PeerTube on a Raspberry Pi 5 using an external hard drive and Cloudflare Tunnel for secure access. Own your photos and videos, your way.
Sobreviví al upgrade de Proxmox 8 a 9
El momento más temido de todo selfhoster se llama upgrade. Especialmente cuando se trata del sistema operativo que soporta todo tu sistema. Y sí, ha llegado ese momento para mí. Uso Proxmox en mi servidor casero. Es un sistema operativo basado en Debian, especializado en virtualización. Permite un manejo bastante sencillo y versátil de los recursos, y como está basado en Linux, […]
🔗 https://altgr.xyz/2025/11/05/sobrevivi-al-upgrade-de-proxmox-8-a-9/
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This Week in Self-Hosted (2 August 2024)
#Fediverse deep dives (courtesy @_elena), software launches, updates, directory additions, a spotlight on #PGBackWeb - a web app for creating and scheduling PostgreSQL backups, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
https://selfh.st/newsletter/2024-08-02/
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #homelab #foss #newsletter #database #backup
Since #Firefish is becoming unmaintained, I need to find new fedi instance software. My choices as I understand them:
- Some similar Misskey fork such as #Sharkey, #Iceshrimp (but they're ongoing a rewrite?), something else..? Advantage is that in theory I can migrate my current instance without having to create a new fedi identity. But the risk is that the next fork will also become unmaintained due to lack of developers.
- #Akkoma. It's faster and lighter than #Mastodon, but I don't like the default UI and would use the Glitch-soc multi-column UI. I don't know if that works without issues on it, but it seems to be bundled in? Also don't know how active Akkoma is.
- Mastodon. It's apparently heavy to run (no experience), but overwhelmingly the most supported and the most likely to be maintained into the future. Downside (which Akkoma also has) is that I need to create a new fedi identity, as apparently other instances won't accept me just switching to Mastodon and keeping the same identity. That would be some hassle, especially as my old Fosstodon/GenServer.social accounts point to my current identity, which would disappear (maybe I could set up a redirect with Caddy).
- GoToSocial. This is very unknown to me, and it doesn't come with a UI?
- Something else?
Thoughts?
#SelfHosting #FediAdmins #FediMeta
Looking for CMS advice
Hey Web devs!
Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?
I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.
Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.
Needs
I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
#OpenSource
Nice to have
Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
CMS app packaged on @yunohost
No CMS vendor lock-in
I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
#FreeSoftware
Absolutely not
Front-end #JavaScript frameworks
Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.
People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)
#Eleventy #11ty #CMS #HeadlessCMS #Ghost #DecapCMS #CraftCMS #Strapi #Web #WebDev #WebDesign #StaticGen #StaticWebsite #Website #HTML #CSS #YunoHost #SelfHosting #Wordpress
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Good morning Fedi friends!
I was supposed to start writing a new blog post about my tech stack - disclaimers about the apps/platforms I use and the ones I actively avoid for ethical reasons…
Well I just started doing some research and reading about #technofeudalism … and fell down a fascinating and haunting rabbit hole.
🔗: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
“Technofeudalism” is officially my word of the year, if not the decade (century, possibly). I wish more people were aware of it.
The #Fediverse feels more and more like a safe haven for me. And in the bleakness of our current political and technological situation, I’m comforted by the fact I’m currently self-hosting essential services (thank you @yunohost ).
TL;DR: I’m super grateful for the existence of the #Fediverse and the fact I’ve learned how to self-host – two amazing ways to resist technofeudalism.
#SelfHosting #DigitalSovreignty #resistance #resist #BigTech #RebelAlliance
Is #snac2 a suitable fedi server for a single-person, daily-driver instance, accessed via mastodon apps, interacting with the wider fediverse?
I /think/ I've mostly seen it deployed as a more write-centric service (for info bots/etc) ... but I could be mistaken.#snac #Fediverse #hosting #selfhosting