Self hosting the Fediverse

It's amazing times for self hosting the Fediverse.

While I'm not necessarily a big fan of Docker, if you're familiar with docker compose (which in itself of course raises the bar to a certain extend), you can easily spin up things in a matter of hours.

A few weeks ago I was trying out Owncast after dinner, and managed to get things running and start a stream from my webcam the same night.

Earlier this week, I set up GoToSocial along with Pinafore, Semaphore and later Phanpy as frontends for it, before I settled on Elk.

I highly recommend trying this out for yourself if you have the required computer skills. Or even if you dont, but are curious – ask your hacker friends for help. Remember, you can have this running to tinker with, while keeping your main accounts somewhere else that you consider more safe, if that's your worry.

Next up for me is to try out something that offers those sweet, sweet custom emoji reactions.