oranki

@oranki@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my one year old homelab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I haven't tried OC. Lot of people still prefer it over NC. I think both have come quite a long way since then.

  I wouldn't say Nextcloud is hard to maintain, even less so if you keep the number of apps to a minimum. The initial setup may require some work, but small instances are mostly plug and play.

  Note that I've never used AIO. If going for containers, the community images are better, despite AIO advertised as the official method. I recommend using Podman, check out

  https://github.com/0ranki/nextcloud-previews

  Also a blog post: https://oranki.net/posts/2025-01-02-self-hosting-my-way5-nextcloud/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nextcloud, despite you're not considering it. You can disable or not install the apps you don't need, like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Dashboard, Activity, etc.

  There's also a fork of Filebrowser, called Filebrowser Quantum, which I've been interested in, though haven't tried yet: https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven't tried an OG Mastodon server, but currently running a GotoSocial instance, just for me.

  With mostly the default retention etc. settings, the instance takes at most a couple gigs of storage space. If some image has been rotated, it will be refetched if you view the post again.

  As for Federation, a single user instance is probably not a good idea if you're just starting with the Fediverse. Only content from accounts a user on your server follows will reach your server, including posts boosted by the people someone follows. I was already following about 150 accounts when I set it up, so I didn't really notice much difference in the home feed.

  OG Mastodon can utilize relays, which will help with the lack of content.

  For following topics, I made another user that follows some hashtag bots from fedi.buzz. The bots boost all posts with specific hashtags, so the posts reach my server.

  If I were to do this again, I'd probably go with full Mastodon instead of GtS, just because I like the UI. There are other niceties too.

  I think there's no way to keep the same domain while changing the underlying server software, without breaking federation. If someone knows a way I'd be really interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running Tailscale docker image vs. binding port to Tailscale IP⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you get the possibility of routing all traffic from a container (or all the containers in that namespace/network) over the tailnet this way? With the host method, you'd need the host to use the exit node too.