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My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

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Re: My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

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Post by INTPenis »

aaomidi wrote: post #28
INTPenis wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always curious to see if peertube is going to work but I have to admit it started immediately, said it had 9 seeders, and worked fine. But I wonder how it works after a few weeks when it's not being HN'd and the author isn't seeding it.

Obviously then it won’t. It’s like asking how is a YouTube video going to work if YouTube the entity stops hosting it. Honestly, the peer tube method of storing media is actually kinda nice. Not everything needs to live forever, and it brings back a semblance of privacy. On the other hand of this, larger companies can pin smaller videos on other instances while supplementing with their own ad supported videos.

Can you host seedboxes for peertube videos? Like using regular torrent clients, or does peertube have their own agent software for this?

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Post by jeena »

wccrawford wrote: post #59

I started to look into hosting my own Lemmy instance to have full control over my data and not have to worry about a server shutting down, but after seeing it takes 2-3 docker instances, I decided not to worry about it and let someone else do it.

Yeah with Lemmy it's pretty extreme. But to be fair, Lemmy is the only fediverse software I run in docker, Mastodon and PeerTube work easy enough without. But Lemmy being written in a compiled language makes it more difficult to get everything installed and set up to compile it. Once it's done it's very lightweight in comparison to especially Mastodon, which is nice.

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Post by jeena »

bravetraveler wrote: post #60
jeena wrote: post #53

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I'm surprised how well it handles it, the load average never went over 3.

That's pretty solid :) What does the storage/CPU look like? That amounts to the CPU time for three cores, roughly, but it could be spent on waiting (eg: I/O) Apologies if this is covered in the post, if so -- tell me to kick dirt. I've been posting while I should be working! The plan was to check it out later (promise!)

I'm using Hetzner and a CX31 shared VCPU https://www.hetzner.com/cloud + 250 GB volume. I want to move to object storage some day because it's cheaper.

I started with the cheapest one, the CX11 but it was just not able to run all the services the load would go up to the hundreds and the server would just block itself. The CX31 has 2 CPUs and 8GB ram which seems to work well with the load I have for now.

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Post by tiberius_p »

Is there a way to have like a backup cloud solution in case my electricity goes down at home and my self hosted server shuts down? Some cloud service that does nothing most of the time except backing up data from the self hosted server from time to time and monitoring if it's up and connected to the internet, and if it's not then it takes over and offers the same service.

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Post by jeena »

tiberius_p wrote: post #66

Is there a way to have like a backup cloud solution in case my electricity goes down at home and my self hosted server shuts down? Some cloud service that does nothing most of the time except backing up data from the self hosted server from time to time and monitoring if it's up and connected to the internet, and if it's not then it takes over and offers the same service.

Not that I'm aware of. You'd need to run a reverse proxy somewhere and then point it to your home server as a default but having your other server as a backup running the software at the same time. The big problem is how to store the data on both servers at the same time, especially small texts which are in the database.

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Post by esbranson »

discardedrefuse wrote: post #20

I have a question that I was hoping the video would answer, but I didn't see. The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice. For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net? Do I use my mastodon.social account to sign up to those other services? Or to…

ActivityPub would not appear to be a focus for the mainline Mastodon team. My tests show that most ActivityPub endpoints of the main Mastodon server software are not CORS enabled so are unreachable by webapps. They are public endpoints and should obviously be CORS enabled. For a HTTP-based protocol, this is a glaring oversight. (It's fixed by at least some other Mastodon servers like Glitch.) Most other ActivityPub implementations correctly enable CORS. CORS is just an example of the treatment that ActivityPub gets.

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Post by kome »

I've tried various Fediverse services such as Mastodon and Lemmy, and, based on my experience, I've noticed a stronger tendency towards censorship, self-censorship, and ingroup behavior.

In comparison, platforms like Twitter and Reddit still feel freer. But overall, the best solution is to use your own website for everything. But too much censure really stifles social media.

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