If it’s ever something you want to try, it’s one of the easier servers to self host and there’s a lot of helpful resources out there. There really isn’t any coding involved outside of editing a few configuration files unless you want there to be.

This is one reason that I think many people should consider running their own single-user instance or tiny instances for close friends/family.

One of the problems with centralization is literally the fact that this can happen. The more small servers the fedi is comprised of, the stronger it is. There are also a huge number of benefits to this configuration on an individual level as well.

EDIT: Re: importing/exporting your old account is, unfortunately, a thing that cannot be done currently. I’m happy to be corrected on that, though.

I have a racknerd KVM VPS running a socks5 proxy and a mastodon instance. It’s been great!

BUT THE MARKET SHARE!!!

Watching every platform ruin itself to become a facsimile of every other platform is deeply infuriating and exhausting

I fucking hate shorts so much. I completely blocked them:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-block/jiaopdjbehhjgokpphdfgmapkobbnmjp

I used this: https://redact.dev/

I checked earlier today and, at a cursory doomscroll, everything appears to remain deleted so far

It surprises me too on some level because it does seem very obvious.

I’ve also learned on multiple occasions over the years that I value different things and I value them much more strongly than a large swath of the selfhosting community. That may speak to whether or not people selfhost for ideological, practical, or other reasons that I am unaware of but, at the end of the day, I find myself disappointed that the version of the selfhosting community that I imagined and thought I was on the same page with is simply not the selfhosting community that exists.

Lol I used a script to overwrite my 13 years of fairly active redditing with a join-lemmy.org link

Not that I’m aware of. I set it up very very early in my self-hosting journey and have just continued using it ever since

There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!

I clicked on some of the tags and got to binary downloads but yeah, I’ve never dealt with releases or compiled binaries via git myself so I have no idea how to make that better at this point

Good call. I’ll try and do that but I am easily distracted so may end up disappointing you

Edit: Should be good now

I do what I can when I can

I cloned the repo into my gittea https://git.toad.city/brad/DeGourou

I went ahead and just cloned it to my personal Gittea and made it public

I get to be that guy! I’m so excited!

In power strips, the lights are (in the overwhelming majority of cases) actually a neon bulb! They’re cheaper for that specific purpose because they can be powered directly off of the mains power with a single resistor.

Your point is entirely valid and I bear the same cross, this is just a fun fact you can use to impress colleagues, strangers, and potential lovers, dazzling them with your deep esoteric knowledge of and passion for illuminators in power strips.

If what you need to accomplish can be achieved via shell commands, it would be hard to beat OliveTin for this use case.

I solved that for myself by making genre folders and just tossing books in them haphazardly as I download them.