This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)
Hoarder's new name change, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Streamystats -- a Jellyfin statistics-tracking platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)
Hoarder's new name change, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Streamystats -- a Jellyfin statistics-tracking platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!
It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.
It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!
I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.
Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.
I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools
Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.
Lately I've been doing more #SelfHosting again due to the current situation. Of course, I'm paying particular attention to power consumption and noise. After good experiences with the #ARM64 architecture, even with power-hungry applications such as Mastodon, I'm now using the smartphone technology for my homeservers, too.
There are #SBCs with more open hardware, but the #RaspberryPi is widely available, well documented, powerful and inexpensive. And it is available with up to 16 GB of RAM.
Anyone operating a server on the Internet must install #security updates quickly. However, many people forget to restart running software so that the new version runs instead of the old one. The #needrestart tool helps with this on Debian-based Linux systems, which unfortunately is usually not pre-installed.
On my Raspberry Pi 4, needrestart
always runs correctly (automatically after apt upgrade
). On my Raspberry Pi 5, however, I first had to create a configuration file as described by the main developer here:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/master/README.raspberry.md
Previously, the tool always claimed that a reboot was necessary because it thought an outdated Linux kernel was running.
Next, I want to activate #LUKS hard drive encryption on both raspis. Unfortunately, this is not as easy under #Raspbian or #RaspberryPiOS as on other Debian systems. If you have managed this: Please let me know how you did it!
Never mind, I thought you could #selfhost micro.blog. Apparently not. I don't do business with American companies when I could host myself. So they're out.
J'ai terminé de choisir les composants de l'upgrade de mon homelab. Je suis content, j'arrive à faire un système compact et modulaire.
Il me reste à choisir le modèle de carte PCIe HBA et trouver de la RAM type ECC. Cette dernière va être relou et cher :/
This Week in Self-Hosted (4 April 2025)
#AprilShowers bring new projects, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #BookLore -- an ebook management and reading platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
Does anyone here self host Mastodon with @yunohost ?
I'm just curious how well it works given Masto's reputation for being tricky to upgrade without breaking?
Please boost for a larger sample size! Tx!
This Week in Self-Hosted (28 March 2025)
@stalwartlabs grants, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Posteria -- a #Plex poster management interface, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
I might not have mentioned that I am planning to self-host my mail.
I currently have one server located in my apartment. Bought for cheap a public IP. ISP is #bahnhof. I've read about all the security measures one need to take, but the issue is whether to host it will work or not at all. I've seen both those that host on a residental line, and also those that tells me it's not going to work.
Anyone want to chip in their experience regarding this?
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In the process of setting up my own mail server (IMAP + SMTP), I was surprised to discover that Mac OS Mail (v16.0) does not support TLS v1.3 for IMAP+SMTP. Interestingly Mail on iOS 18 does support TLS v1.3, although a number of 3rd party iOS clients do not (inc. Outlook, Spark Mail). Thunderbird does support TLS v1.3.
It is surprising that the latest version of Mac OS Mail does not support the latest TLS protocols for IMAP+SMTP and I need to enable legacy encryption protocols to send and receive email on Mac.
@pixelcode neither are there reproduceable builds nor is #Signal's #backend opensoirce'd nor is it possible to #SelfHost.
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J'ai décidé de mieux dissocier mes identités musicales à mon nom et à celui de Contemplator. MàJ du contenu de mon site web / #Faircamp / #hyper8 vers un focus plus personnel donc, et création d'un site dédié à Contemplator (aussi FC + H8) ! J'en ai profité pour peaufiner le look des pages Faircamp au maximum de mes habilités.
Faircamp perso :
https://www.christianpacaud.com/musique
Hyper8 perso :
https://www.christianpacaud.com/video
Contemplator :
https://www.contemplatorband.com
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