oranki

You can’t anymore, due to spam:

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/curated-room-directories/

No, I haven’t tried OC. Lot of people still prefer it over NC. I think both have come quite a long way since then.

I wouldn’t say Nextcloud is hard to maintain, even less so if you keep the number of apps to a minimum. The initial setup may require some work, but small instances are mostly plug and play.

Note that I’ve never used AIO. If going for containers, the community images are better, despite AIO advertised as the official method. I recommend using Podman, check out

https://github.com/0ranki/nextcloud-previews

Also a blog post: https://oranki.net/posts/2025-01-02-self-hosting-my-way5-nextcloud/

Nextcloud, despite you’re not considering it. You can disable or not install the apps you don’t need, like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Dashboard, Activity, etc.

There’s also a fork of Filebrowser, called Filebrowser Quantum, which I’ve been interested in, though haven’t tried yet: https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

The Universal Blue people emphasize containerized stuff a little too much. It’s perfectly possible to add non-flatpak software to ostree distros, it just slows update processing down a little bit.

Since abraunegg onedrive is available as an RPM, you can just layer it on top of Bazzite; download the rpm and and then rpm-ostree install ./onedrive.rpm

If the RPM works on Fedora it will work in ostree distros too. Besides, if it foesn’t work, you can just rpm-ostree rollback and it’s like you never installed it, apart from things in your $HOME like config files.

The recommendation is to avoid layering wherever possible, not that you can’t do it. Many apps are still a bit wonky as flatpaks, even if available.

I set the color theme to as black and white as possible, then use the themed icons because it makes the phone less attractive to look at. Contemplating on setting grayscale mode on full time.

So yes, I don’t like it either.

I only use Ublock origin and Bitwarden, so that narrows the list down if so. I’m also using Flatpak.

It might coincide with FF upgrades. Can’t pinpoint enough to even make a bug report.

+1 on this. Been trying to search if anyone else runs into this, but you’re the first one who has had the same issue.

Can’t say it’s consistent, but happens maybe every week or two.

I haven’t tried an OG Mastodon server, but currently running a GotoSocial instance, just for me.

With mostly the default retention etc. settings, the instance takes at most a couple gigs of storage space. If some image has been rotated, it will be refetched if you view the post again.

As for Federation, a single user instance is probably not a good idea if you’re just starting with the Fediverse. Only content from accounts a user on your server follows will reach your server, including posts boosted by the people someone follows. I was already following about 150 accounts when I set it up, so I didn’t really notice much difference in the home feed.

OG Mastodon can utilize relays, which will help with the lack of content.

For following topics, I made another user that follows some hashtag bots from fedi.buzz. The bots boost all posts with specific hashtags, so the posts reach my server.

If I were to do this again, I’d probably go with full Mastodon instead of GtS, just because I like the UI. There are other niceties too.

I think there’s no way to keep the same domain while changing the underlying server software, without breaking federation. If someone knows a way I’d be really interested.