That’s why my side project energy has been focused on making decentralized solutions infrastructure more appliance-like reliability and boring. So app environment on top can have as close to equivalent advantage as centralized solutions.
Sounds awesome! No rush, I’m a big believer in taking the time to do it right, not twice.
Just wanted to let you know that I find value in that + feel like it could help adoption especially in the self hosting community.
Would I be able to sign into multiple servers simultaneously? In case I have 2 friends hosting this on their own separate servers?
I care about that more than federation.
I’ve been trying to make sense of why multiple systems end up like this and how to design better. At an individual and small community level there’s decent good people. But once group size or resource pooling goes beyond a certain size more than human attention span, etc then rough edges are blown up.
It’s like small groups can operate on trust and direct feedback but once you get too big then rules and proxies start to dominate. And after that people optimize for those local rules instead of total system health.
Also in small groups you have individuals you tie to systems, but once too big you drop that association in addition to empathy when interacting with the system.
Maybe we need a more modular society focused on local good.
There’s also netbird which has reverseproxy setup options recently in addition to the wireguard mesh.
Self host on a VPS
Last night I did
Do you want database features? Or just markdown style note organization?
If switching from Windows or Mac and you want to keep similar UI for easy transition, check out ZorinOS. A friend of mine recently installed Zorin OS Core w/ nvidia drivers and is enjoying it so far.
Yeah agreed for most people migrating from Windows should be fine.
I just had a bias since I’m just used to making my own systemd services and udev rules for my work.
Ahh I see. Won’t the immutability impede work? I guess that depends on the type of work. But given OP is switching from Windows for first time it’s unlikely they’ll be wanting to mess that.
yeah Bazzite is also a fine gaming + typical work option
I’m also assuming OP doesn’t want a gaming-only setup / wants to actually have a general purpose use desktop too for work, etc.
Bazzite isn’t well suited as a general purpose work + gaming machine.
From OP’s post it sounded like they want simple / not tweaking their OS so they can focus on gaming.
ZorinOS or PopOS with nvidia drivers
Managed to get a matrix server up + a web client frontend hosted on same site for friend group .
3 container docker compose: continuwuity, tunnel, premade Cinny image with nginx serving frontend.
Great if you don’t care about voice, but if you do then you’ll need to host a TURN server on a VPS and connect home server to that.
You mean they’re complying with Meta’s age verification at OS level lobbying?
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings