chiisana

I’ve got mine running and shares my notes here: https://lemmy.chiisana.net/post/264

What are you coming up short with?

Oldest and first that pops to mind would be something like Asterisk, but I’ve never hosted it myself before so wouldn’t know what to tell you…

Bearing in mind that posts and comments from communities your users are subscribed to will flow into your instance, not as a reference, but as a copy. So all those “seeding” scripts are terrible ideas in bringing in content you don’t care about and filling up space for the heck of it. If you’re hosting a private instance, you can unsubscribe from things that won’t interest you, thereby slow down the accumulation of contents that are irrelevant and just wasting space.

Worth noting that this is the fediverse, you don’t need to be on the latest instances if you’re not fond of their moderation policies (such as inability to create your own community). You can always sign up on another instance that allows for such, and (as long as it is not doing something egregious like allowing illegal content thereby getting themselves de-federated), you can still interact with content on yet another instance (as shown here I am commenting from a personal instance).

Cloudflare offers registration of most domains at their wholesale cost.

There’s no shortage of people who will tell you it’s okay to self host email… in fact, you’re probably not hearing all of them, because some will inevitably get routed to spam.

The FOSS crowd will eventually pop in and try sway you strongly the other way, but at the end of the day, it really boils down to bigger platform, more app choices and more supported platforms. If you expect anyone other than yourself to be using it, on anywhere else other than your own equipments, but just don’t quite know who or where yet, then Plex might give you a better running chance in supporting that use case. Otherwise, choose whichever one floats your boat more.

I’d honestly recommend moving further out if the said entry level jobs are available outside of Vancouver proper. Even Surrey makes a huge difference to quality of life if you’re not required to head downtown to work every day.

There’s a custom compile script repo here that can help you get started: https://github.com/masquernya/lemmy-arm64

Yeah. We reach for what works, and sometimes they’re great, other times there may be better solutions. When a reverse proxy container restarts, there will be a brief disconnect/outage of everything it is proxying until it comes back. I think I’m this case there are other solutions available, but I trust you’ve also weighted the pros and cons of your decision. Hope you find the right tool that meets your objectives!

Sounds like trying to use a rolled up newspaper to kill a fly. You can do it with janky restarts of your reverse proxy container, which results in down time of all apps, or you’d wait some long period of time for it to detect the change and rewire itself.

I’d recommend reaching for an electric bug slapper instead. Use something like traefik, where you can allow it to connect to your docker socket (just like watchtower), and automatically wire up the new container’s reverse proxy when it comes back online.

Question boils down to where is the boundary. Does an alias of your choosing, which uniquely identifies you across the fediverse personally identifiable? I think we all would say yes. Does then actions linked to that alias constitutes as personally identifiable? Well, in absence of the correlation of the ID, it is still technically possible to map out who this user is and what their interests and preferences are, so maybe yes? That’s a hard grey area to determine IMO.