You got quite good answers already, here and in the other thread.

My suggestion is to not start with pixelfed but something else (simple stuff like dokuwiki, you can use it to document your stuff while you’re at it) to get an understanding of the whole process (running the service itself, making it available to the internet after hardening your infrastructure a bit etc).

Also, if you’re not settled for how to do it exactly, give Docker a try. There’s a reason it’s popular among selfhosters!

Most important: replace the raspi SD card with an SSD

General hardware: see if I find a better solution than my current Proxmox box (repurposed desktop which consumes 60w idling but is capped to 16GB Ram)

Incoming traffic: currently having a VM that runs nothing but nginx and certbot. Considering switching to another reverse proxy and, more important, get proper monitoring of the logs (e.g. IP detection, 403, etc)

Maybe add some iam like authentik

Finding a solution for selfhosting podcasts client with sync on Android and Linux… gpodder never really seemed to work, considering audiobookshelf.

Probably setting up calibre web and gethomepage

Keeping what I have and maybe optimize a bit:

• Prometheus stack
• plenty exporters
• Nextcloud
• paperless
• home assistant, mosquitto
• pihole
• vaultwarden
• selfoss

On VPS:

• Mastodon
• Bookwyrm
• some WordPress (want to move this to my homeserver as well)

This should be possible, in nginx you would just have near identical entries that deliver the same content. The service itself sometimes takes a domain to build internal links etc, and those usually only take one.

Interesting approach, good luck! Admittedly I’m not sure if many users want to take their media uploading in their own hands and pay for it but maybe I’m wrong. Where are the images stored? Do you have your own hardware? Backups etc?

Also since you’re interested in Fediverse media storage, I recently read about https://jortage.com/ It’s a third party storage for your instance with deduplication, pretty interesting idea. Takes away a bit of the federated part though

My company does host an instance, but I’ve never used it for game streaming. No idea what the fps is

Jitsi or Element call

It seems like the vps stuff is fine, but the company I work at uses them as cloud provider (many VMs plus K8S clusters) and the quality is not so great to say the least. Also the support is sometimes blaming us for their outages and generally not too helpful.

This sounds super cool, I’ve been looking for something to keep track of my plants! Gonna try this

Wait, how do you know my password?

That’s actually better I think. A project with zero open issues/requests is usually dead, not fast in solving issues.

Didn’t see it back then, just came across this on mastodon today. Sure they are competitors, given that nextcloud started as am owncloud fork, but they probably monitored ownclouds development closer than everyone else.

The resources required by federating depend on how many people follow each other across those two instances and how much these post. Just existing and theoretically federating doesn’t need any resources if there’s nobody following, assuming threads isn’t doing that different from everyone else.

For each post a user makes on your instance, it sends that post to each instance where someone follows the poster. There’s no automatic sending to every known instance of every post on your instance.

Every image on the federated timeline. It’s a lot if users on your instance follow many other users.

It depends on the country you’re in I guess. In Germany, and other countries as well I guess, you’re not liable for stuff others people post on your platform as long as you react to reports and actually remove that shit when it’s brought to your attention. You don’t have to look at your instances media folder 24/7

Yes, it’s possible. It requires some knowledge in server administration though, you can find the specifics at the Lemmy GitHub page.

Unfortunately not. I think some areas have hashtags for that kind of stuff and someone is working on a new platform, but it’s not there yet.

https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt

It think it’s a fire and forget kind of app, so I wouldn’t expect any updates besides occasional dependency updates.

The F-Droid app is basically a browser that lets you stay logged in which is quite comfy.

Joining the channel and ask would be the most straightforward way I think. I kind of misunderstood your initial post. I know there are several different “Fedimins” communities, but I only participate in one that’s specific for German instances (of all kinds).

There’s also https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ Idk if they have a matrix room/space