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[–] cellardoor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Really interesting to scroll through and see. Picked up a couple of new tools to look into, too, thanks!

Sad... Did not see the survey when it was running...

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] retro@infosec.pub 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I only need to send sign up and password reset emails for Jellyfin, I don't need to receive any emails back.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I meant more like... which server part are you hosting. Answer: Client...

[–] tapdattl@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could self host a web client

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

The question before was "Are you self-hosting any components of an e-mail server?" and if you answered "No" you didn't get to choose the client. And a webmail client is not part of what I consider an email server component without context.

But the survey also has other questions that are not clear enough. Like "Do you deploy a network-attached storage device (NAS)?" - what do they mean by NAS? As soon as I have network shares on it, it can be considered as a NAS. Do they mean all in one solutions like Synology or Qnap? Then why not make that more clear?

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which service are you using for this?

Use anything... Mailcow or otherwise. Just don't expose the ports on your firewall/router to connect back to you.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I sort of get it. When you self host mastodon or lemmy, you have to deal with the moderation that comes with it. That's a headache unless you have a ton of free time. Judging by the age distribution, I'm guessing most of us just want things to work so we can do what we enjoy.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@CosmicTurtle0 hosting a single user federated blog is also an option, you are only responsible for yourself and your friends you host. Not necessary to host public.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

federated blog

I wonder what federated blog (or publishing platform) isn't stuck in pre-Docker era, though.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know ghost has a container deployment and uses activity pub

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬

pre-Docker era

you mean bare metal deployments?

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. While I can dockerize those applications, all I checked out lack modern features and concepts/designs. It all feels heavily outdated technology-wise.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 1 points 1 day ago

@𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 I think thats the fun of it, different people building tools as per their knowledge/requirements, with time i'm sure someone will make something that you might find suitable :)

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not just moderation, but you are responsible for all content on your server, some of which may be illegal and hosting it is a IRL crime, but the sheer size of it is impossible to filter.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

You can run those as single-user instances or with approval of users so you can use those instances for your family and/or friends only.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Lemmy uses activity pub right? 200 in a survey hosting similar stuff is not that bad IMO.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why? I'm not particularly interested in ActivityPub, I just use Lemmy because it's the closest thing to Reddit w/o being Reddit. Once a better alternative shows up, I'm out.

I'm happy to throw some money at the admin of my instance, I'm not interested in hosting something myself, especially when things can break when different instances are on different versions.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What are some interesting things to host?

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The usual suspects: Mastodon (or mastodon-compatible servers like GoToSocial), PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I just don't see the use of self hosting these just for myself. I guess that's why so little people do this?

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What the hell is an ActivityPub platform?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago

ActivityPub is the protocol powering the Fediverse. Platforms include Lemmy, Mastodon and Pixelfed.

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