Unless I am blind or my search-fu is hugely failing me, I cannot for the life of me find any information on the recommended/minimum specs to self-host the matrix backend services. I’m trying to spin up a VM just to play around with it and see if I like it. Specifically, I’m looking at Synapse or Continuwuity. Any advice?

Not sure if this goes here or if this post will be hated upon? but i want to host ai like llms and comfyuis newer models locally but im not sure what type of setup or parts would work best on a possible slim budget? im not sure either if now is the time with inflation and such.

Hello i am looking for a private messaging app to chat with my family, What would be the best option to use I want it to be decentralized, user-friendly and have good and secure E2EE, must be free as in beer and open source, I have used matrix and didn’t like it because of encryption issues, I am currently using XMPP but I am having issues with image uploads and image downloads, I am considering deltachat and it seems to be the best option, if anyone has any suggestion that is better i would appreciate it. EDIT: i tried out all the recommndations and simplex was both the best for me and my family liked the UX more than the other ones

I’m planning to setup backup on my nas with the 3-2-1 backup rule.

I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it’s been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.

Wanting to dip my toes into kubernetes for homelab stuff and I have a few questions.

All this talk about Discord replacements plus my own experience attempting to host a Synapse has got me wondering why it seems so hard to implement voice chat.

Can someone recommend some self-hosted or not, tool that I could schedule for periodical scans of all I host and is exposed to public internet?

I’m an English teacher who wanted to “cut the cord” wherever I could, so I started learning about domain hosts, containerization, .yaml files, etc.

The title is from Shakespeare’s *Romeo and Juliet*, Act I sc v: “Come, let’s away, the strangers all are gone.” It also appears in *King Lear*, Act V sc iii: “Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage”.

Hello, quick introduction. I’m self-hosting beginner, started about year ago, burned myself couple times, learned a bit, but mostly still groping in the dark as nobody I personally know does anything like this.

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I just got myself some mini PC’s and want to set up a k8s lab to strengthen my skills, I was laid off 8mo ago and haven’t been able to find a new job.

My friends are open to leaving Discord which has finally given me a reason to look into Element/Matrix. I found the install instructions and am immediately put off. Is this it? No official docker compose? 😞

Ie similar to how Lemmy allows users to create instances that are federated with each other, only this Discord alternative’s instances wouldn’t federate with each other.

I’ve recently been working on scraping the app api for instagram for a project, and I’m surprised at the amount of data it sends that it shouldn’t need. I knew it did a lot of tracking already, but after looking at what it sends, I am never installing that app outside of an emulator.

Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance’s communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

The last time I did any web development it was at a company that forced us to all use MS Windows and Visual Studio Code. I haven’t done anything like that in a while and I don’t even have access to a Windows install, but I want to do a bit of REACT-style web development (mostly remembering how to do it, i.e. basic tutorials.)

Hi all,

I just installed Radicale and could not at first figure out how to add a calendar that I could edit in the app. And since I could not find any decent post on the topic, here is how to do it (as of iOS 18.7.3 on an iPhone 13 pro, but I imagine the process being very similar on other devices):

I’ve been looking for the perfect modern messenger for a while. Something that acts like a torrent for chat history, bypassing central servers entirely while keeping the contacts opt-in. I recently stumbled upon Keet and won’t lie, I’m slightly enamoured. It actually feels like it truly wants to be a serverless, distributed messenger at the conceptual level.

On matters like VPN providers, DNS providers, and similar topics, often one would like to find websites with recommendations and reviews from other people, especially testers or “experts”. But it’s SO difficult to find trustworthy websites! The vast majority appearing on searchers are clearly built by untrustworthy parties, or biased by commissions. A good one is https://www.privacyguides.org/ Do you know of any other good, trustworthy ones?

Can Android apps use WebRTC, or is WebRTC only available in browsers?

I’m looking to set up personal mail using my own domain, and Purelymail’s model/pricing works great for my intended usage (a couple mailboxes on different domains). Unfortunately, I am not so excited about where it is domiciled.