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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 mal-2 »

colesantiago wrote: post #3

This is awesome. Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy? How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations? A start might be to tell people to use extensions that are adblockers and to disable javascript on websites and even use and setup pi-holes to take back their data and privacy. There must be more that can be done here bu…

I think fediverse offers a decent compromise here which is that people can self-host an instance for other people to use. Some of the longest running instances have a few hundred users or maybe a thousand. So if one in 300 people is interested in self-hosting then they can support the other people who either don't have the skills or don't have the interest. It's not perfect but it's working pretty well for those servers.

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

#92

Post by rsolva »

timtom39 wrote: post #54
mvanbaak wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example

and archive.ph on cloudflare (nothing but CAPTCHAs)

It happens, but with limited effect and restricted to certain jurisdictions. My point is that the social web is not owned or controlled by any one commercial entity, just like the rest of the web.

The pirate bay is blocked by law in Norway by the ISPs DNS servers, but is trivial to get around. It is a very soft kind of censorship, which is the beauty of the Internet.

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

#93

Post by oldpersonintx »

colesantiago wrote: post #3

This is awesome. Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy? How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations? A start might be to tell people to use extensions that are adblockers and to disable javascript on websites and even use and setup pi-holes to take back their data and privacy. There must be more that can be done here bu…

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

#94

Post by WolfeReader »

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.

I never thought of using "number of docker instances" as a metric for evaluating software before now.

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

#95

Post by mappu »

dgellow wrote: post #83
martincmartin wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't someone make a Docker instance that, inside it, contains the 2-3 other docker instances? I hear it's docker all the way down.

Docker compose makes it relatively easy to coordinate multiple containers. But to answer your actual question, yes, that’s possible though definitely not recommended for standard hosting, it’s called DiD (docker in docker) and is fairly common for CIs.

It is common to use --privileged (or -v docker.sock) and run docker commands inside docker. But then you're not really in the container, you may as well be on the host.

I think genuinely containerizing inside an ordinary container, without --privileged, would mean taking extreme compromises like bocker or proot.

What's the state of the art here?

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

#96

Post by WolfeReader »

throwaway290 wrote: post #65

It says my browser is not compatible. What is this web... Do I need to switch to chrome if I want to read someone's post about fediverse now?

You should upgrade your browser, since IE6 is no longer supported.

(If you don't want us to assume what your browser is, you should say what your browser is.)

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

#97

Post by apitman »

One huge shortcoming of the Fediverse as currently implemented is that you have to use a different ID for each app, ie tube.jeena.net/@jeena, toot.jeena.net/@jeena, etc. What if you want to use the Mastodon UI to write a comment on a video? Your comment is going to use a different ID than the one you normally use to interact with videos. Given this, what's the point of federating these different apps with each other?

We need to figure out a way to share a single id across apps. Could be as simple as having a single URL as your user ID profile, and listing multiple public keys which are used by your various apps. The keys can be rotated as necessary since your URL is still the final authority on control over your identity.

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

#98

Post by superfrank »

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.

That would also discourage me from setting it up, so I don't blame you, but just asking, was there not a docker compose somewhere for setting this up. It seems like that would make things a lot easier.

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

#99

Post by Workaccount2 »

apitman wrote: post #97

One huge shortcoming of the Fediverse as currently implemented is that you have to use a different ID for each app, ie tube.jeena.net/@jeena, toot.jeena.net/@jeena, etc. What if you want to use the Mastodon UI to write a comment on a video? Your comment is going to use a different ID than the one you normally use to interact with videos. Given this, what's the point of federating these different apps with each other?…

A blockchain might actually be a decent solution for this. Just make it so the tokens don't have value.

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

#100

Post by kuchenbecker »

apitman wrote: post #97

One huge shortcoming of the Fediverse as currently implemented is that you have to use a different ID for each app, ie tube.jeena.net/@jeena, toot.jeena.net/@jeena, etc. What if you want to use the Mastodon UI to write a comment on a video? Your comment is going to use a different ID than the one you normally use to interact with videos. Given this, what's the point of federating these different apps with each other?…

I don't know enough about the Fediverse, but are those pluggable? I could see having a trusted third party for Identity management.
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