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Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

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  • @beigegullEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    I’ve got a couple VPSes, hosting

    • Mailcow, because email is identity.
    • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
    • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
    • ttrss, even though it’s junk software with a jerk developer.
    • A bunch of self-developed web apps

    Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it’s also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that’s still broadly accepted.

      • @beigegullEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I use it to route a commodity SIP provider to a cheap SIP phone and provide local voicemail. It gives an alternative to relying on cell providers for everything. I haven’t properly put the effort in to handle SMS, which is a weak point in my setup.

    • Anarch157aEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Have you tried FreshRSS for feeds ? I’m pretty happy with it.

      • @beigegullEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I haven’t been motivated enough to really look into replacing ttrss. Most of the alternatives I’ve looked at don’t have a decent Android app, which is an element I enjoy with ttrss.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      I just got going on matrix and I wish there were better XMPP iOS apps. Chat services without friends don’t work and bad iOS apps keeps people away. After all this time there isn’t a good adoption of XMPP for iOS except iMessage I guess.

      • 2•2 years ago

        @GregoryTheGreat @beigegull I’ve got a few friends using xmpp apps on iOS, mostly snikket (which is a rebranded siskin). Works well, notifications work as they should, so does audio/video calling, and e2ee works too of course. Monal has apparently gotten better recently

    • Bassel
      1•2 years ago

      @beigegull @devve Totally agree that your email is basically your de facto identity online. I didn’t have the heart to fully host my own mail server but I made the decision to ditch gmail and use my own domain with a hosted provider. I am hosting my own IMAP server so the plan will be to work my way up to where you are eventually…