This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.

I’m itching so hard to block both.

A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.

Mastodon exists. It’s pretty good. Using 2 apps is fine.

I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.

That really depends on how you treat the media you download. Is it just a temp buffer that you delete after watching or is it a collection you grow and curate over time.

Fuck Reddit. I’m here now and it’s great.

Quitting Reddit and switching to lemmy - easy. Quitting FB - not possible. I have no other way to keep in touch with remote friends and relatives and there are local FB groups that are useful for me. Dropping Whatsapp also is sadly impossible. With my nerdy friends I use telegram/signal but 99.99% of ppl are available only on WhatsApp.

For app data, Borg as backup/restore software. Backup data is then stored on Hetzner as an offsite backup - super easy and cheap to setup. Also add healthchecks.io to get notified if a backup failed.

Edit: Backup docker compose files and other scripts (without API keys!!!) with git to GitHub.

It’s literally takes 2 clicks to tunnel via a VPN

That sounds like an excellent solution for web based apps, but what about services like Plex or Nextcloud that use their own client side apps?

It feels like it is possible to have a conversation here. In Reddit I felt like my comments were getting buried

I’d recommend Debian Linux. It’s free, stable, has all the software you’ll need with long term support, ton of online resources and communities to learn from. You can start with or without UI.

OP is correct. We have very little to to gain and everything to lose.