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

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Post by wccrawford »

superfrank wrote: post #98
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.

I didn't go deep into looking for one. It's possible it exists, but the little bit of research I did into it didn't reveal it, and I didn't want to figure out how things fit together.

Now that you say that, it seems obvious that it must exist, and I just missed it.

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

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Post by wccrawford »

WolfeReader wrote: post #94
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.

Well, a couple things occurred to me when I realized it was at least 2 instances.

First, I'd have to get them talking to each other. I am not an expert at Docker, and I just do the most basic stuff with it.

And second, I think they'll need to be reachable from the web, so I'd want to host them somewhere out in the cloud, and not on my home network. NearlyFreeSpeech doesn't offer Docker hosting yet (that I know of) so that means paying more for somewhere else for it...

And at that point I decided I didn't care enough about the benefits to deal with all the downsides, and just signed up on a Lemmy instance. It was actually the second instance, because the first one had stability issues. I then realized I didn't like how that instance was being run, and signed up on third, which I've been happy with and it's been relatively stable. At least, when it had problems, so did most other big Lemmy instances.

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

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Post by WolfeReader »

throwaway290 wrote: post #142
jeena wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What browser do you use? I'm on Firefox 120.

Current Safari. Why is it a question?

Because if the dev wants to fix the site for your browser, knowing what browser to target is absolutely essential.

In this case, it sounds like the devs specifically targeted Safari to not be supported. You could try to get around this with a user agent spoof, though.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

teddyh wrote: post #84
ggpsv wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thinking out loud here, but if this is public-facing you can put together a static archive using something like ArchiveBox/SingleFile and have the monitoring server serve the files and update the DNS entry when it detects downtime past a certain threshold.

With the new HTTPS DNS records you could point to the backup server with a lower priority; no need to update the DNS!

Can you link me to some further info on this?

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

callalex wrote: post #145
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.

Why not just use the hosted server all the time at that point?

Cost? Spin it up when the local server goes down, spin it down when it comes back up.

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

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Post by myaccountonhn »

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?…

There is a lot of work being done on this.

I personally think initiatives like activiypod and vocata are interesting and would solve it well. They focus on being standard Activitypub implementations that others can subscribe to.

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

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Post by thomoco »

This is inspiring. We're seeing some momentum now with the internet pendulum swinging back in the direction of the distributed and federated platform that it was originally intended to be. Interoperability via standards-based protocols provides choice of providers and methods, and helps to limit the influence of walled gardens and ad-based services. I expect to see a number of services and providers arising that will offer good data privacy controls and an ad-free experience with funding via a reasonable monthly fee. Well done!

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

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Post by teddyh »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #154
teddyh wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the new HTTPS DNS records you could point to the backup server with a lower priority; no need to update the DNS!

Can you link me to some further info on this?

See RFC 9460; discussion here from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420555>

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

WolfeReader wrote: post #153
throwaway290 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current Safari. Why is it a question?

Because if the dev wants to fix the site for your browser, knowing what browser to target is absolutely essential. In this case, it sounds like the devs specifically targeted Safari to not be supported. You could try to get around this with a user agent spoof, though.

But isn't it just text? Any browser even lynx is capable of showing text. Or is some marker like [video] or something else missing from the title?
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