I am looking to host a **de-federated** mastodon instance for 300 to 500 people.
I wanted to know what kind server specs I should go for for this kind of project. should I go for 8gb or 4gb of RAM, roughly how many vCPUs/threads, etc..
selfhosting
O mini-pc que comprei para cacharrear como home server só tem VGA, Display Port e USB. O meu ecrã tem um cabo HDMI. Qual seria a melhor opção para conecta-los? Acho que só o preciso para a instalação (estou pensando en Ubuntu Server), depois poderia fazer todo de forma remota, não sim?
Obrigado.
OK, here we go. The 4th run of the Tunnel training.
Learn best-practice server security & computer networking fundamentals while building up your own high-performance, censorship-resistant VPN in Iceland. Generate configs as easy-to-use QR codes to give out to friends, family & your activist mates to protect them in this mad era of runaway surveillance, automated attacks and account theft.
https://courses.nikau.io/tunnel/
March 27. 4x4hrs. No prior skills required.
Nuevo server uruguayo de mensajería XMPP.
Si bien está funcionando desde el 1 de noviembre, es la primera vez que le "doy pa delante" aquí, ya que considero que está lo suficientemente "maduro" como para dejarlo crecer.
#xmpp #snikket #prosody #selfhosting #selfhosted #uruguay #monocles #conversations_im #concersations
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Stefano Marinelli (creator of the excellent FediMeteo) is working on a new type of lightweight Fediverse server called "littleFedi".
It's still in its early days and under development, but the first test server is now open and Stefano is gathering feedback about it. More info in the quoted post at https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/a105002b-5749-437d-a3cd-da54dfa70395 and more detail at https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/4252ae6f-b949-42f8-a021-fd2b698f8b37
You can follow Stefano at @stefano or on his littleFedi account at @stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social
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#selfhosting #oss #solarpunk #literature #books
Started 'Anne of Greene Gables', *coping with YouTube withdrawal*
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I just finished a short introduction post about @algernon's project iocaine: the deadliest poison known to AI 
(not man 
)
Within the post I explain what iocaine is, how it's related to AI and LLMs and of course why I use it to fight AI/LLM companies and to poison their crawlers and training sets.
Using, configuring and watching iocaine was also a way for me to shifting my dystopic/pessimistic thoughts 
into fun and joy 
And yes, I hate AI and LLMs and yes, I'm really fine by becoming an obsolete developer by not using it 
https://lukasrotermund.de/posts/fighting-ai-and-llms-with-iocaine/
Stepping Up to Self-Hosting
I got into Android at the beginning, with a pre-order of the T-Mobile G1, because I never liked the proprietary-everything ecosystem Apple built with the iPhone. I was geniunely excited about the potential of an open-source mobile OS, even if it was coming from a billionaire-owned tech giant. I rooted my Android phones and flashed custom ROMs to them for years. It was a blast. Then Google and Samsung started closing out that scene, and I lost the excitement that had drawn me in at the beginning. That sense of potential evaporated.
Years later, I found myself drawn back to open-source stuffs when I stumbled into the Fediverse. I love the sense of possiblity that pervades the Fediverse and FOSS projects in general. I've been hopping around for a few years now, trying different instaces running different software, and it's this Fedi project—littleFedi—that made me feel like now is the time for me to try my hand at hosting my own stuff. I know the code isn't ready for me yet, but that's okay because I need time to research self-hosting options. I'm hoping the Fedi can help with some of that.
I'm not a programmer or a techie—perhaps call me an advanced user. From my reading, I feel confident that I could manage self-hosting from a VPS. Honestly, though, I'd prefer my own hardware at home. The problem is that there are a lot of options, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I thought I'd share what I want from my hardware, at minimum, and see if some helpful Fedizens have suggestions. So here's what I want:
- A Nextcloud instance for file storage. I have hundreds of gigabytes of music, videos, and photos, and I want a place to store all of that in the cloud.
- A chat client. Maybe Nextcloud Talk, but I'm also thinking about a Matrix server. Just haven't read much about self-hosting Matrix yet.
- A Fediverse client. I had been thinking of WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin because I like having the option to write long blog posts as well as short status posts; however, I'm now thinking that I'll run a littleFedi instance once the code is published.
Email. Because if I'm going to be hosting my own cloud storage, chat, and social media, I might as well take care of my own email as well.EDIT 2026-08-12: After both @schmic and @deach left helpful comments in reply to this post, and then reading more about self-hosting email, I've decided against this one.
I have limited physical space in my cabin out here in Bumblefuck, so I've been looking at mini PCs. I see that Nextcloud even sells some with Nextcloud preconfigured, but I'm not sure any of those are for me. I prefer Linux, but I'm comfortable with installing Linux on a machine that ships with Windows. (Done that with several of my old laptops.) I'll consider a Mac mini if y'all recommend one, but it's been a decade-plus since I've messed around with macOS.
EDIT 2026-08-12: I'll need 2 TB of storage space, minimum, to start. I'd like a machine that I can easily upgrade with an additional SSD when the time comes for more storage.
I won't be making a quick decision here, so as long as this blog is still published without an update, I'm still looking for options and I would still appreciate tips, suggestions, and stories about your own self-hosting adventures.
Be good to yourself, and be good to others 🫶
Amazon's Twitch is now quietly feeding its streamers' content into GenAI/LLM by default 🤮 (Source: https://kotaku.com/twitch-is-now-using-your-content-to-train-amazon-ai-models-and-has-hidden-the-option-to-opt-out-2000723891)
If you want an alternative where you have total control and ownership of your own streams, @owncast is worth a look:
🌱 https://owncast.online (website)
🌱 @owncast (account)
OwnCast accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc. People who follow you will see in their timelines when you go live, and can click straight through to your stream.
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Do you have a basic shared hosting plan? You can now host a #Fediverse instance on that plan. Check out #Starling: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
ver 0.2.1 🎉
Two small but not entirely unimportant bug fixes
- some instances could not find the pxvoid instance (therefore, following was not possible). This should now work on most instances.
- some instances could not display posts made before following in the user-feed. Older posts should now also appear in the feed.
Thanks to https://social.wake.st/@liaizon for pointing out this bugs to me 
The excellent free open self-hosted online service platform Nextcloud has just started posting videos to its own PeerTube server. You can follow their account at:
They've already posted nine videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.nextcloud.com/a/nextcloud_main/videos
You can also follow their Mastodon account at @nextcloud
Proton built their entire brand on one promise: Swiss law means government agencies can't touch your data.
Their own Terms of Service, their own infrastructure contracts, and a federal court case from March say otherwise.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/not-even-government-agencies
#bigtech #blog #infosec #privacy #proton #protonmeet #security #surveillance #userhostile #selfhosting
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i'm in need of a good guide on approaching monitoring of apps (mainly k8s deployments like synapse, mastodon) and servers in general
i started to use zabbix for servers but i'm just going on default stuff (and not everything is connected to this) but i'm in need to learn actual monitoring to prevent crashes and see what's wrong early
if you have any recommendations on articles/guides/books i'm gonna be grateful 💚
#askfedi #selfhosting #selfhosted
please boost.
been running this 45 TB disk array for some time now.
the intention behind it was to provide services to the community.
i was thinking, what sort of services do you want to see or use?
some ideas:
- IRC
- gemini/gopher, there are some forum softwares
- neocities instance
i'd like there to be some way to share this disk space in a useful way.
Anyone got recommendations for a self hosted blog?
Currently I’ve got my posts in markdown in a git repo together with some templates, and push this to omg.lol through their API.
I’m after something that would replicate that ‘DX’ for me: Ideally I’d want to be able to run the whole thing in a Forgejo Action, and then only spit out static HTML/CSS.
I don’t want all the URLs to change either so probably need some custom routing.
And I don’t want anything with too steep a learning curve.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
#GoToSocial instances are being updated to v0.21.3
Your instance might be unavailable for no longer than 10 minutes while the update is ongoing.
Thank you!
RE: https://mstdn.social/@fedihost/116817360754430331
All instances have been upgraded to v4.6.2 !
Thank you for your patience.
If you notice any issues please let us know.
Sto cercando una soluzione per segnare note/appunti/idee, che sia preferibilmente sincronizzabile e #FOSS. Tra i papabili candidati, ho trovato: #Joplin, #Notesnook e #Logseq.
La scelta principale ricadrebbe su Joplin Server, in #selfhosting, per via della sua natura "cloud". Pareri in merito? Dovrei considerare altro? Avete suggerimenti?
Eviterei soluzioni tutto in uno come #Nextcloud, che installerei comunque ma a parte, per compartimentare meglio e avere un servizio dedicato ad ogni scopo.
Veronica Explains creates fun and interesting videos about technology including FOSS, Linux, retro computing, retro gaming, self-hosting and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:
➡️ @vkc
There are already 60 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tinkerbetter.tube/a/vkc/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #FOSS #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #SelfHosting #PeerTube
Random #SelfHosting #Linux question: I have a USB drive attached to my PC. It's mounted, but the only time I read from/write to it is at midnight when I make a backup. Still, I can hear it spinning up and down throughout the day. Is there a way to monitor and see which processes access the drive or its mount point?
My reading seems to suggest that I have a serious obstacle to self-hosting on my own hardware:
CGNAT
I really do live in Bumblefuck—I love it here—and Starlink is my only option for a high-speed ISP. I hate that, but I need a high-speed connection for work and I don't want to move. Not many other options for work out here, so for now: Starlink.
It looks like I can maybe get around some CGNAT issues with a VPN that includes port forwarding…but now I'm wondering if maybe I should just consider self-hosting from a VPS instead.
Anyone else on the Fedi have any experience with self-hosting with Starlink as an ISP? What's that been like for you? Have any tips or suggestions?
Nineteen days before the U.S. sanctions deadline, Autistici/Inventati is shutting down.
For twenty-five years, A/I built infrastructure for people who understood that privacy, autonomy and resistance require more than good intentions. Now a government order has made keeping that infrastructure alive untenable.
There is grief in this. There should also be fury.
Because fascism does not arrive only as boots in the street. Sometimes it arrives as a designation, a compliance deadline, a terrified service provider, a bank account that suddenly stops working. Bureaucracy has always been one of authoritarianism’s favorite costumes. The paperwork looks terribly respectable while the walls close in.
And this cannot remain a problem for “the nerds.” People organizing in every sphere need to understand what autonomous infrastructure means, why it matters, and what happens when we leave it to a tiny number of exhausted technical collectives to keep the lights on for everyone else.
We need to become the thousand servers. Now.
If one autonomous project can be isolated, there should be ten more behind it. A hundred. A thousand. This should be the moment radical hosting, federated services, community servers, privacy infrastructure and collectively controlled networks begin flourishing, not retreating. Build them in basements, social centers, infoshops, collectives, cooperatives and wherever else people can keep a machine humming and a cable plugged into the wall.
The lesson cannot be that autonomous infrastructure was too dangerous to maintain.
The lesson has to be that we did not have nearly enough of it.
We ❤️ A/I. We are heartbroken to see it end this way. And we refuse to treat its shutdown as the end of the idea it spent twenty-five years proving was possible.
Use the logo and banner provided by @subvertising to keep their memory alive. Let's not forget this by next week!
Goodbye, A/I. Not farewell.
Read our full report:
https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down
campaign page: https://sabot.media/campaigns/autistici-inventati
#AutisticiInventati #Antifa #DigitalRights #Privacy #MutualAid #AutonomousInfrastructure #Fediverse #SelfHosting #RadicalTech #NoBlogs #SabotMedia
US Treasury sanctions against Autistici/Inventati, including noblogs.org, are obviously meant to target people who host their blogs there, in a violation of their first amendment rights.
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/
EFF wrote about the case of Francesca Albanese before.
Her case is still in district court and an initial order in her favour was stayed.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73372084/massimiliano-cali-v-donald-trump/
Subject: More on Nicolium
For: #selfhosting and/or #Fediverse power users
I've tested and tweaked #Nicolium, a front end for Pleroma and other Fediverse back ends. With the tweaks in place, it works well for me. I'll share some of them in patch form at a later date.
Features include hashtag follow, emoji reactions, borders on focused posts, Markdown, WYSIWYG editor, real-time chat, draft posts, URL cleaning, direct messages, enhanced interaction policies, theme editor with export support, image ALT-text button, profile avatars inline next to mentions, and different ways to handle load or display of new posts.
There is also a multi-column Deck feature, but that is more of a work in progress.
The attached screenshot shows what my tweaked Nicolium presently looks like. The panel at the top is one of the tweaks. I added it to hold link buttons for different purposes.
To see a larger copy, in Chromium or Firefox derivatives, left-click on the image. To see a full-size copy, right-click on the image, select Open in New Window, and resize the new window.
Trick for advanced users:
The screenshot shows a /tags/ URL in the location bar. FYI The combination of Pleroma [as back end] and Soapbox or Nicolium [as front end] displays URLs of this type in response to hashtag operations, but the URLs don't work if you reuse them.
If you encounter this issue, URLs of this type can be made to work by adding the following location block before other location blocks in your "nginx" or "angie" server ".conf" file:
location ~ ^/tags/(.*)$ {
return 301 /tag/$1;
}
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