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I really don't have much to say right now on this gemlog, but I feel bad
putting up a server that exists solely to advertise itself. Thus, a list
of things I self host and my experiences with them.
For the record, I self-host on a combo of a couple RPI's at home
and a VPS in Germany. I don't live in Germany, but hey it was cheap.
I think Radicale was the first thing I started self-hosting, unless
you count my NFS shares and Kodi setup used to watch pira^H^H
Honestly, not much to say here. It works, it runs on a
Rapberry Pi in an empty beer box, and works with every app I've thrown at it
Can't say it's WebUI is pretty, but I manage everything through my phone
or Thunderbird anyway
Funkwhale is a really neat idea: I was a big Grooveshark fan back when it was
a thing and a lot of it works pretty well.
In practice, it's clunky to set up if you're not using Docker and importing
music is a bit of a pain. Plus if you're pointing it at a folder filled with music
to fill its library that means you can literally never change how that
folder is organized. I don't even know if my Funkwhale instance still works.
But well, it's early alpha. There's better ways of sharing Music but if you're
interested in the idea for its own sake, give it a shot.
Honestly I'm not a fan of TRR because it's a lot more than I want.
I set it up because I wanted to keep newsboat synced between my desktop
and my laptop and RTT was one of the few servers that could be self-hosted
and was supported by newsboat.
One day I'll write my own RSS server that just handles synchronization, but
today is not that day. Because RSS turns out to be a lot more complicated
than I expected.
Matrix deserves its own gemlog but as a brief description:
If you don't mind Docker and use the ansible playbook, setting it up
is easier than almost every other item on this list.
Once you leave that ansible playbook bubble though..oh man...
But in reality, I like Matrix a lot and running my own homeserver
has been easy. I had to spin it up since work is using Google Hangouts
to keep in contact during the plague and I *refuse* to use any service
that doesn't have a desktop client. So Matrix bridges are been great.
When they work.
Looking at you, GroupMe bridge that installed a billion Node packages
and then had the *audacity* to not work.
Gitea's great, and if you're self-hosting Git and you're not using
Gitlab you should absolutely be using it.
The Best Damn Gemini Server Out There
(I kid, that's probably Jetforce or GLV)