NotesLunaSea is a fully featured, open source self-hosted controller focused on giving you a seamless experience between all of your self-hosted media software remotely on your devices.Unfurl
NotesSo what's it like to set up your own GotoSocial server? Well, I can walk you thru what I used for my setup. Yours might be different; that's OK! I made these up-front choices to simplify the operational overhead because I didn't want this to be a hassle and I don't need the extra engineering that comes from trying for nine nines of uptime:
NotesI wrote code (in PHP) to import my old bookmarks. And you didnât misread that, itâs 28,000 links over the last 20 years. They come from my original links blog, and from Delicious, and from Instapaper, and from Twitter back when I backfilled those shared links into Pinboard, which I then backfilled into my link blog database. Itâs a lot of things, but really, itâs straightforward from a programming point of view. Itâs a simple POST to the REST API which Linkding provides by default. I have shared most of the code I wrote as a Gist in GitHub. It includes code in PHP to convert exported CSV from Instapaper to a JSON format that my poster code can use. And over the last 2 days and over many hours, every few seconds a link would be posted. And as of now, itâs finished.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesOur systems do not need to be high-maintenance, intensive on resources and energy needs. They donât have to answer every request with availability and latency that measures up to however many nines or zeroes are the current industry standard. They have to attend to the needs of those who are using them, which can be much less demanding. We can run both infrastructure and software at more human scales and learn other ways of growing or shrinking, and we can also scale to high performance and availability too. This is what the concept of a network enables after all, but it is often used to centralize and create dependency instead.FeedUnfurl
NotesFrom hosting email and simple HTML websites in my youth to the current attempts at decentralized Twitter- or YouTube-like platforms, the tech community keeps waiting for everyday people to take the baton of self-hosting. They never willâbecause the effort and cost of maintaining self-hosted services far exceeds the skill and interest of the audience. The primary âfeatureâ of self-hosting is, for most, a fatal flaw: itâs a chore. Itâs akin to being âfreeâ to change the oil in your carâitâs an option, but not a welcome one for most.FeedUnfurl
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Free and open-source, Runtipi lets you install all your favorite self-hosted apps without the hassle of configuring and managing each service. One-click installs and updates for more than 80 popular apps.Unfurl