With layoffs starting at WordPress, and me recognizing that I'm a bit of a dinosaur in this regard, I'm wondering what folks are using for self-hosting their own blog these days? While I'm not exactly prolific, I do like having my own little home on the internet to write up things I find interesting and pretending people actually read it. And, of course, I really don't want to be reliant on someone else's computers; so, the ability to self-host is a must.

Honestly, my requirements are pretty basic. I just want something to write and host articles and not have to fight with some janky text editor. And pre-built themes would be very nice. It would be nice if there was an easy way to transition stuff I have in WP; but, I can probably get that with some creative copy/paste work.

So, what are all the cool kids blogging on these days?

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.

There are so many new changes, and I don't know which ones are more important. See the link for full changelog

Just go for it! It's not easy, but you learn from it!

After running my own website (wordpress) on a Synology NAS, I found I could do better. So I bought a N100 pc which I would use as a server, equipped it with a 1TB SSD and some 32GB RAM.

After installing SSD and RAM, I connected the server with a network cable into ETH0 port to my router, connected a monitor via the display port (the HDMI ports wouldn't work). I also downloaded Proxmox and 'burned' that onto a USB flash drive, using Balena Etcher. This is all free software!* I also connected a keyboard via USB and after inserting the flash drive into the server, I booted it up. Here you can follow the setup-guide from Digital Mirror on YouTube

I'm interviewing folks to determine the roadmap for my federated link sharing project "linkblocks". If you like bookmark managers, lemmy, are.na, or any other app for curating and sharing stuff, this is your chance to make me build your dream app ;)

A session takes about 30 minutes in a voice chat. If you're interested, comment here or send me a DM!

Hey folks!

I have a music library that has grown over time that I stream using navidrome. The issue is, some of the files have little to no metadata, I have duplicates of the same album, some artist names are misspelled, etc. An it is large enough that doing this completely manually would take a while.

I'm assuming (hoping) that I am not alone in this.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a tool (either standalone or part of a self-hostable media app) to basically assist in cleaning this up? It doesn't need to automate a lot of the process, but, for instance, querying metadata from an online source based on the file name / artist name, detecting misspelled artist names would already be interesting. Similar to Calibre's "retrieve metadata" for ebooks.

I currently have an email provider who also gives me my own nextcloud account. If I were to setup my own server in a while (which I would like to do), will I be able to carry over all my things (contacts, calendar,Talk conversations, appointment pages, etc) in some easy manner?

I've not yet started using these things because I'm not sure if it will be too much work to shift later.

Hello, people

Has anyone tried one of those OSes ? If so, what are your pros and cons about them ?

#yunohost #FreedomBox #CasaOs

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26074446

I'm trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I'm an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).

Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/post/108211

• my methods have been:
• use trilium for any detailed notes and documentation
• memos for random thoughts especially if shorter
• pen and paper when offline or on mobile because mobile trilium and moememos both suck
• zotero for citation and bibliography manager
• backed up to nextcloud
• i have paperless-ngx but found it randomly errors a ton of things and zotero is fine.
• considering if it’s worth it to have so many different spread out methods
• theyre fun to use but it creates more chaos then needed

I set up an instance of the ArchiveTeam Warrior on my home server with Docker in under 10 minutes. Feels like I'm doing my part to combat removal of information from the internet.

I've recently been able to set up Lemmy and PieFed instances on a Raspberry Pi 5 and wanted to share the process for anyone else interested in self hosting an instance.

The following instructions are based off using a used Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM64) plus a USB external hard drive for the hardware. I used the Raspberry Pi 5 image which is based off Debian 12. The following instructions should be similar enough for other Debian 12 distributions and should hopefully get the same results.

The only other purchase I've made was a domain name which was super cheap ($15 a year which includes hiding WHOIS information). Everything else is free.

My residential ISP service blocks incoming data on "business" ports such as Port 80 and 443. Users won't be able to access your site securely if these ports block incoming data. To work around this I used Cloudflare Tunnels. This allows users to access your site normally. Cloudflare Tunnel will send incoming data to a port of your choosing (between 1024-65

I just learned how to do a reverse proxy using Caddy, tailscale tunnel, and exposing Immich secured by OAuth all in a few hours. Now I'm no longer scared of exposing certain services to the Internet!