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I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

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[–] derived_allegory@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yacht is a great UI for starting a container, especially for self hosting, there are a good amount of tutorial online.

I personally also host

  • syncthings that will sync my app settings on the phone, and push it to my cloud drive,
  • pi-hole to block trackers. I generally let ad through, but not trackers.
  • jellyfin for media library
  • transmission for (cough, cough) seeding fedora, mint and other free and open source, and 100% legal stuff.
  • home assistant for automations.

Some other things you can try:

  • a home Minecraft server, not exactly FOSS, but if you are into it, you should do it.
  • Nextcloud for syncing photo and documents, but remember to keep a offsite backup.