This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

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• vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  XKCD is amazing.

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Randall Monroe has provided me with weekly nibbles of entertainment for nearly 2 decades. But this was inspired by his style, not created by him.

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    • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I realize that now. Well done!

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  • TrustingZebra@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you remember what the original was?

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it’s xkcd.com/1425/

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    • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is original work. The source is in the post.

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    • pastthepixels@lemmy.potatoe.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A bit of reverse image searching reveals this was the original XKCD comic (more specifically, the top middle panel): https://xkcd.com/1269/

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• the_third@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, basically ham radio but with more Kubernetes.

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  • sv1sjp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

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  • wax@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was curious and looked up the origins of ‘ham’. Apparently it originates from “ham-fisted” describing second-rate morse-code skills of telegraphists before radio was a thing

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  • LrdThndr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a self-hoster thats also a ham…

    Fucking ow.

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• spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Self hosted Cloud provided media storage

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You want to talk about it?

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    • darelik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t threaten me with a good time

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It could be their own cloud. I refer to my VPSes as “the cloud” even though that’s still self-hosting.

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    • p5f20w18k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t like the use of the word cloud, makes it sound like some mystical virtual environment in the sky that anyone can use and it just works.

      It’s someone else’s computer, nothing more

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  • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My case is a variant of that - I used to host on a VPS, but the storage available was extremely expensive for, say, more than 16 GB. Tired of having to trim data literally daily, I went and purchased a home server with all the storage I would need. The problem? My home internet, being residential, is behind CG-NAT (not even a dynamic IP!), and that means renting a (much cheaper) VPS solely to expose my server to the open internet with a static IP.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For exposing your server to the internet, a $10/year 512MB RAM VPS would be more than enough. You can also get VPSes with way more storage for a reasonable price, especially during Black Friday. The VPS I’m hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on has 99GB disk space and is only $33/year, but that was part of a limited sale.

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• korewa@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m in this picture and it’s making me feel uncomfortable

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• MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And this is why I love my admin(s) be they human or ai i have no idea how or why but thank you for doing it.

  i feel like i am showing up to a garden party in a nice pair of slacks, blazer, and shoes and everyone else is in a mecha

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• h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  insert Thanos stone meme.

  We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of early days of Linux.

    You should ditch windows and switch to Linux! It has everything!

    What I can I do on it?

    You can compile your own kernel!

    …

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  • Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We must self host an instance to discuss self hosting instances to discuss self hosting the instance.

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• regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most self hosting isn’t even needed but it sure as hell is satisfying

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is anything we do even needed?

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• hoodlem@hoodlem.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LMAO. So, so true and I have no problem with it. Self-hosted seems to be one of the most active communities on Lemmy. I learn a lot and y’all all seem cool.

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been self-hosting Mastodon for a while and mostly using it to share bird photography, but also to provide comments on a static site. Since Mastodon and Lemmy both speak ActivityPub, those get crossposted to /c/flashlight so Lemmy comments are also included on my site. Federation is cool.

  I don’t follow many accounts that post Fediverse meta stuff on Mastodon. While I have some interest in the best examples of that content, the only way to attract a broader community is to have promote accounts and content appealing to the interests of that broader audience.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, that comments section is really nice! How did you implement it? Does the site also use ActivityPub and subscribe to the thread?

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It uses the Mastodon API in a client-side script adapted from this one.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mmmmmmmm Emisar… I picked up the DT8 recently and it’s absolutely hilarious. I love it so much.

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• milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is 100% me but for Lemmy.

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  • xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can confirm, lol

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• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I should docker a Mastodon instance behind my reverse proxy asap!

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• admin@leemyalone.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love it. . IMO opinion self hosted instances are the coolest thing about federated social media and it’s part of how we will take back the internet from the corporations that have captured it.

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  • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IMO opinion

    You know what ‘IMO’ is an acronym for, right?

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In My Own opinion, lmao ass off.

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    • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IMO my opinion I don’t know

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  • Infinity187@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow…you really believe this?

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    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only one way to find out!

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• angelsomething@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey why the personal attack.

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Collateral damage can’t always be avoided.

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• willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hope that’s mostly a joke.

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  • punkcoder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    its not.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course it’s a joke. We also host other things not just Mastodon. 🙄

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    • punkcoder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey… wanna start a lemmy instance?

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me too

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• Transcriptionist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image Transcription:

  A one-panel XKCD comic with the title “The Self-Hoster” One character is seated at a computer, talking to a second character standing behind their chair. Character one says: “It took all weekend, but now that I have a Mastodon instance running in Docker behind a reverse proxy with cloud-provided media storage, I can enjoy interacting with a federated network of other users without compromising on privacy or content moderation.” Character two replies: “Cool, what kinds of topics does your network discuss?” Character one replies: “Our experiences self-hosting Mastodon instances, mostly.”

  [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only mistake I see is attributing the work to XKCD.

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    • Transcriptionist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hm, I guess I assumed based on the style. It’s an edit? I’m not really sure what to call it then.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was on Lemmy for a month before I realized this was a community about hosting servers, and not the Lemmy equivalent of a self.post from Reddit. 🤦‍♂️

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• MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel seen.

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  • flerp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Privacy compromised!

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAT	Network Address Translation
  VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hate googling things and just being lead back to reddit… Where my account was permabanned for “Report Abuse”, something literally not even discussed in their TOS

  And they’re not every clear on if I’m allowed to use an alternate account, they just said “If you go onto another account and continue this misbehavior it’ll be banned”, which sounds like I’m allowed to use an alt, but… only if it plays by the rules, but else where I’m seeing that “Ban Evasion” is against the rules, so which is it Jim Jam?

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  • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hate googling things and just being lead back to reddit

    This is so far my biggest problem med Lemmy and federation in general, all content is not in one place. It was nice just searching for problem x reddit and you found a solution 9/10 times (because you had everything in one place).

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That and the Specific Fandoms aren’t here, no FNAF, no Sonic, no Taco Bill, no Mudkips, nothing

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  • dx1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their stance is that you personally are banned for life from subs regardless of which account. Would be a real shame if your IP got changed between accounts and you never mentioned the old account again.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      huh

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  • midas10@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I genuinely think Reddit might be the worst social media site just cause of the egregious amount of echo chambering. And I’m not even talking about only one side of the political spectrum is on the site, it’s sub-dependent. If you don’t fully agree with anything in a community you run the risk of the ban hammer at the very least in the community and possibly even site-wide. Every single community (and apparently Reddit) has at least one rule that’s vague enough for them to justify removing posts/banning people they don’t like with it. And even worse, everyone on the site thinks they’re the epitome of intelligence cause they’ve been in their circlejerk forever.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The kind of people who mistake their own ass for an air freshener.

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      tbf I feel like lemmy also has a lot of echo chambering, it’s literally 70% tech nerds and nearly everyone is atheist

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• infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Here, I just want a space where we can just talk about the idea of talking about what we would like to talk about!”

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• shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This sounds complicated, but it’s pretty standard praxis and probably a matter of minutes to set up if you have self-hosted other services before. What takes more time is the stuff that’s not standard, like ominous configuration options.

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  • teuniac_@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very easy to set up and almost no work to maintain*

    If you, despite knowing better, rarely update your containers and host OS and often think about a list of other important tasks that you have yet to do.

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• Lemmling@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now I have to self host mastodon to join the party 🥳

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe let’s not suggest that all self-hosting is just container-bros and related struggles?

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  • traches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …… am i a container bro?

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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• FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hmm… Maybe i should write a Post about my Problems with the home Assistant App ^^

  But Unfortunatally i mostly think “the official forum might be a better Place?”

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Accurate. We care about privacy and quality. A rare breed.

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• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sorry there’s a Mastodon subreddit? If it’s purpose isn’t nearly exclusively to redirect people to Mastodon then what are we doin lol

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  • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m enjoying my weekend, how about you?

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• lemmy@lemmy.stonansh.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So true

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• GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shit I’m about to turn my old computer into a server. And tbh I don’t need it but I gots to use it for something.

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• LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s always fun when my Nextcloud server crashes and I lose calendar sync

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  • A10@kerala.party ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or when I use my server through a VPN and fail2ban bans me

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