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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] itpcc@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

PiHole!

One of the easiest installer I've ever seen. Significantly less ads to be shown especially one on non-browser.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This was my gateway into the selfhosting world. I don't think I would've kept going if it didn't make such drastic difference to my browsing experience.

[–] jason@lemmy.weiser.social 6 points 1 year ago

I feel like this one needs to be higher up. It so immediately and instantly changes your browsing experience (especially on a phone), that I VPN into my own home network when I’m out just to stay on the PiHole.

Plus, when you get further along in your selfhosting journey you can use the custom DNS to re-route domain names so you never need to leave your network to use your own services.

[–] RetroEvolute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any reason to use PiHole over something like Adguard DNS?

[–] itpcc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, at least, is a custom CNAME DNS record. I've both internal (point to device directly) and external (via reverse proxy) domains. I use a CNAME record to point the external domain back to the internal one for my local split DNS. Technically it can be applied on Adguard; not as easy as PiHole though.