New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@monkee haha thank you! 😂

[ton@m.tzyl.eu]

@_elena So gonna read this. Thank you. I'm using @yunohost (on Hetzner) but it is still a struggle bc various things keep not woring (regularly can't update mastodon e.g.)

[ticho@mas.to]

@_elena @yunohost As long as your guide does not try to paper over the painful fact that self-hosting is not an once-and-done affair, but rather a continuous commitment, since the hosted services absolutely *need* to be maintained, you're OK in my book. :) 👍

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ton thank you Ton. This first post may not be interesting for you, as it just covers what you need to get started (BEFORE installing YunoHost).

Re: your issues are you using a home server or a VPS?

I've had zero issues this year with GoToSocial, Pixelfed, PeerTube, NextCloud and Friendica... but I'm using a reliable VPS.

Re: Mastodon, I hear that it's quite resource intensive. That's why I opted for GoToSocial instead...

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ticho great point ticho, thank you! Noted for part 4 :)

[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@ticho auto-updates are your friend @_elena @yunohost

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Lioh @ticho yes! I love that YunoHost automatically backup up an app for you and stores it in "backups" before running an update... so you can revert to the previous version in case something goes wrong

[magpieluvseeds@mastodon.social]

@_elena @yunohost this is so timely! My bestie just asked me for advice on how she should proceed in moving her writing off substack and my own goal for the new year is to self host all my files so they are no longer on the cloud. Bless you Elena. This is exactly the accessibility we need to expand digital sovereignty to everyone!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@magpieluvseeds thank you so much! delighted to hear this :) @yunohost

[totalsonic@mastodon.social]

@_elena @yunohost I was really close to setting up a Yunohost server some months ago, but being a noob in this, got lost when it came to port forwarding. Think they could improve their docs on that part. Given that the Friendica instance I'm on is going to close in January, the Diaspora pod I'm on is currently down, & I want to go beyond the 500 character limit mastodon.social has, seems I need to try again to fix those things.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@TotalSonic I would highly highly recommend picking GoToSocial instead… I feel like it’s the hidden gem of the Fediverse. You set your own character limit, number of photos, poll options, custom emojis etc…

[sknob@mamot.fr]

@_elena @yunohost
I’ve been resisting the urge to switch to self hosting, but you’re making it *very* hard to resist 😄. Can’t wait for episode 2!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sknob oh my! You may go down a rabbit hole... like me. I'm now addicted to self-hosting and always on the lookout for a new thing to add to my stack 😅

[leonieke@squilla.vitaulium.eu]

@_elena @sknob Welcome to the dark side!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@leonieke @sknob I would personally call it the brightest side 😂😂😂

[eelcoa@mastodon.nl]

@_elena @yunohost Very nice, wel written blogpost about #yunohost for #newbies

Even though I consider myself to be a #techie, I still feel a bit uncertain about selfhosting. You post made me decide to finally go for it. Thanks!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@eelcoa yes, that's going to be post no.4. Thank you and wishing you all the best with your self-hosting endeavors (warning: it's quite addictive)