It depends on what you want, but here is where i started:
I watched a lot of youtube videos about opensource software. Then i got a nice second hand server that was quiet and didnt use too much power. I installed ProxMox on it instead of VMware (opensource) and then i slowly started to build VM’s for whatever i wanted to selfhost.
A very important aspect that a lot of users ignore is security. You need to keep everything up to date. Follow sites with regards to your software (you can aelfhost freshrss. So thats a nice start) and keep “up” with cybersecurity.
These days i have a small server with Alpine installed on it. Since most my selfhosted things now come in docker. If you go that way, learn yourself everything anout docker and docker compose. Compose is a really powerful tool once you work with docker!
Who reads README's anyway? Aren't they like instruction manuals? You only read them once its broken? :) Or maybe i should start reading instruction manuals..
Dat komt (denk ik) omdat hier vooral mensen zitten met een stuk meer kennis. Niet elke “Jan Doedel” weet hoe je een fediverse account aan maakt. En daarnaast moet je ook nog actief op zoek naar de juiste community, op de juiste server.
Oftewel, het kost werk om hier te komen, en is dus niet “voor elke gek” een optie. Bij Twitter meld je je aan, en je kan zonder moeite elk mogelijk bedenkbare onzin de ether in slingeren. Bij Reddit word dat alweer iets moeilijker, maar nog steeds makkelijker dan hier in de fediverse :)
Not to mention that the OP is open for interpretation, and it came across (at least to me) as another entitled person moaning about a free service.
Next to that, teaching people about the selfhost option is actually what lemmy is all about. Not beeing owned by a single corporate entity, so endusers have freedom to choose.
If lemmy want to survive, it depends on people who know how to selfhost it.
But thats exactly the problem :) some ego steps in and boom! As a foreign government you simply cant trust that a privatly owned company has your best interest at heart, and they shouldn’t.
i read an article a few weeks ago that said that our (the Netherlands) government is working on its own Mastodon instance, i hope they actually pull through with that :)
Its a shame Lemmy doesnt allow us to migrate our profiles (yet) like Mastodon for instance. But i have good hopes this will come in the future, so you can move to a different (better, depending on your definition) server easily :) We’ll just have to wait a while i guess :)
Johannes Jacobs @ johannes @lemmy.jhjacobs.nl Posts 0Comments 169Joined 9 mo. ago
It depends on what you want, but here is where i started:
I watched a lot of youtube videos about opensource software. Then i got a nice second hand server that was quiet and didnt use too much power. I installed ProxMox on it instead of VMware (opensource) and then i slowly started to build VM’s for whatever i wanted to selfhost.
A very important aspect that a lot of users ignore is security. You need to keep everything up to date. Follow sites with regards to your software (you can aelfhost freshrss. So thats a nice start) and keep “up” with cybersecurity.
These days i have a small server with Alpine installed on it. Since most my selfhosted things now come in docker. If you go that way, learn yourself everything anout docker and docker compose. Compose is a really powerful tool once you work with docker!