Yeah nothing is quite perfect yet, and I’m figuring out my priority features as I keep going. The future is bright though.

+1 for Liftoff. I’ve got 4 apps and wefwef pwa going and I keep finding myself going to Liftoff more and more frequently.

You’re thinking of lemmygrad, but the rest is right

I recently found out Nova was purchased by an analytics company. I don’t have any proof or solid reason to think they’re up to no good necessarily. But I have zero desire to use something as integral as a launcher that’s owned by a company like that.

I moved to Neo Launcher and it’s been 95% as good as Nova. The knock is just some fine tunings that Nova had, but I’m not having any issues with Neo.

It feels kind of silly but I’m also looking forward to buying it again.

Another vote for downgrading. I also started trying out “Connect for Lemmy” and it’s been pretty slick.

I saw something that a fix was in the works, but also that it seems to only affect chrome based browsers. I set it as a PWA from Firefox and have never had the orientation change on me unexpectedly

I see the anybody but GoDaddy thing a lot too. The controversies page on Wikipedia does a decent job at pointing out some of the reasons people dislike them.

Looking at feature set though, I’m in the same boat as you. Part of it is me being lazy though. When my registrations come up for renewal in a few years I’ll take a serious look at porkbun.

What is your resource utilization like? I know larger instances obv have their own quirks but one of my unknowns is what specs for the server.

I’m also curious about disk space. I’ve seen people self hosting say their usage grows about 500M per day (but no mention on the amount of communities they actively federate) which would fill up my Hetzner box in about a few months. Having never adminned Lemmy, is there some sort of content deletion job that removes stuff after X amount of days?

Lastly, from what I understand the federated tab only shows stuff from instances (or is it down to the community level?) where at least 1 user in your home instance is subscribed. Did you just have to go out and browse communities you’re interested in and follow them yourself? Or maybe with an alt account?

It’s crazy to me just how much praise I got from my mother in law when I would immediately change my newborn’s diaper or really do anything my wife had asked when we brought the baby home. I signed up for literally all of this when I got married and we decided to have kids.

What a wild world we live in in which doing the absolute bare minimum to support your significant other and your child is met with praise.

Mint chip 100%

Thanks for the .atom tip. I’ve been messing with Diun to try and keep up on updates but I run so many different things it ends up being useless by the time I get around to wanting to actually do the updates. I’ll add the ones I super care about to Miniflux though and see if that’s more doable for me

Also possible, yeah.

fsociety00.dat

I’ve been trying to find this out as well. I haven’t found anything that even claims they’ve shown Reddit any legitimate data. Seems like a “trust me bro, we have what we say we have” situation

My mission critical services are:

• Unraid
• Nextcloud
• Gitea
• Nginx Proxy Manager/Caddy
• Pihole

NPM/Caddy accomplish the same goal (reverse proxy with lets encrypt SSL) but I’ve had much better performance out of Caddy. Things that require web sockets in NPM are very hit or miss but in Caddy they work without any extra tweaking for me.

As for where to start, it depends on what you want to accomplish. Do you want to replace Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox etc? Then Nextcloud is a fantastic place to start (coincidentally this is what I started with 5ish years ago.)

I prefer to have Proxmox as my hypervisor and then run whatever I need in VMs (and some VMs run docker containers.) Others prefer to have unRAID on baremetal and use their implementation of docker. There’s also TrueNAS SCALE which I haven’t looked into.

There’s also the world of the seven seas, matey, in which case the *arrs are my absolute necessities.

Ultimately, there are lots of options and it comes down to what you want to do with the hardware you have. I started off with a gaming PC and slowly added hard drives and an LSI card (which gets passed through to my unRAID VM.) But really all you need to get started with messing around is to figure out what you want to do first. The hobby has turned into a labor of love for me lol

Same thing here. It’s also bled over to Mastodon for me and it’s been quite an enjoyable experience.

kbin + Sync is the dream. Hopefully the kbin dev(s?) Can make that happen. At this point I’m only using Lemmy because jerboa is somewhat serviceable and I don’t like either web UI on mobile

I really enjoyed my short time with Infinity. I was just seeing what else is out there and that one checked almost all of my boxes. I couldn’t get over the bright ass green they used when a comment was fully collapsed though. Still a fantastic app and I hope that dev continues to succeed.

I turned my last two gaming PCs into Proxmox hosts and I have a Hetzner vps that will host something eventually.

2010 Gaming PC:

• Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
• Docker teet VM
• Piwigo
• Chevereto

Pihole is running on a keepalived vip that acts as my secondary DNS server. Gravity sync keeps it in line with my main Pihole VM (push/pull) and then I have an old rpi also on the same keepalived vip that has gravity sync set up that pulls from the secondary VM

Anything I run as an evaluation or that needs testing also runs here. This machine gets Proxmox updates first as well.

2016 Gaming PC:

• unRAID VM
• Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
• Nextcloud
• Nginx Proxy Manager
• Gitea
• Dozzle
• Docker container registry
• Diun
• Caddy (moving away from NPM)
• Photoprism
• Jellyfin
• Plex
• Tautulli
• Bookstack
• Heimdall
• Netbox
• Unifi Controller
• Wikijs
• Paperless-ngx
• Uptime kuma
• Gluetun
• Deluge
• Homarr
• Lidarr
• Miniflux
• NZBget
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Readarr

These are split amongst a few VMs depending on criticality and further broken down to needs (VPN, whether or not I can reboot and not affect my wife/kids, network share requirements.

I’m pretty much always tweaking something and having fun with it

Yep, I would have happily paid for the ability to keep using Sync, just like I happily paid for Sync Ultra. I’m probably not in the majority though