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@my_millennium @dbrgn doch, weil es verlangt #Vertrauen in #Threema.und die #Schweiz, was ich als naiv betrachte.

Alles andere sind proprietäre Silos und damit inhärent unsicher!

Bonjour Fedi friends!

I haven't been posting about #selfhosting lately because my entire life has been taken over by filmmaking – creating a promo video for the #Fediverse with the amazing @samaaberg and @TheLifeofTarzan

I miss Terminal, Linux commands and installing / updating things... but I am on a new learning journey. After nearly a decade of editing in Adobe Premiere, I am now moving to #DaVinciResolve. At this point Adobe's prices are extortionate... I will have to do motion graphics in AfterEffects but I won't be paying for multiple Creative Cloud apps.

The learning curve for DaVinci Resolve is a little steeper than expected but I'm having a lot of fun.

And yes, yes, I know, at some point I will try the #FOSS video editing software https://kdenlive.org. On my to do list for the summer!

I hope you're having a lovely day 🌞

KdenliveKdenlive - Free and Open Source Video EditorKdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
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#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.

Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.

Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.

In real life most people like to own their homes (if they can) and they generally keep them tidy, reflecting their tastes, character etc. - even if they completely ignore the commons.

In the digital domain the concept of "owning your place" does not even exist anymore. #selfhosting a website never became a thing.

Everybody is paying with their data for a tiny spot in a giant Hotel California, chaotic, impersonal, noisy, intrusive, unsafe - everything that a real home is not.

Hello everyone! I took a break from Mastodon for a bit but want to get back to using it because I like this place, so I figure now's the perfect time for a new #introduction

I'm nfoert (he/him), and I primarily do fullstack #webdev. I've also been experimenting with other things like #gamedev and #androiddev more recently.

I use #linux and do #3dprinting, and I care about and make #opensource software. I also do some #selfhosting and play games sometimes.

nfoert.github.io

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@Linux there are 3 big options you forgot that I know of which too ain't under #Cloudact aka. have no subsidiary/office/parent company in the #USA:

And for #PasswordManagers, there's also #Enpass for those that don't like #KeePassXC / #KeepPassDX / #KeePass and for organizations there's even #Passbolt as a centrally manageable solution. All of these allow #SelfCustody & #SelfHosting on-premise.

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@debby @monocles @Stuxhost well, @delta / #deltaChat is not using #XMPP+#OMEMO (unlike #monoclesChat & #gajim) but #PGP/MIME on regular #eMail, which makes it way easier to setup in organizations as not "yet another server needed" and also easier to comply with mandatory #archival laws in #business use-cases.

docs.monocles.euOverview - monocles Documentation

I've had to throw anubis in front of my small, single-user Forgejo instance. I hate that I have to do this, but AI scrapers don't respect robots.txt, they work around rate-limits, and they basically behave completely maliciously, hitting all the archive and diff endpoints of my forge at once, and killing my pod with an OOM. I'm tired of being DDOSed by these inconsiderate fuckers. Now I just need to figure out how to load exceptions for RSS feeds and the like.

#Anubis #Forgejo #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

anubis.techaro.lolAnubis: self hostable scraper defense software | AnubisWeigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers

To anyone out there who’s successfully convinced someone else to switch from a mainstream app / service to a self-hosted / indie / #FOSS alternative:

What worked?

Pitching this kind of switch could become a core part of my business soon. I’d love to know what aspects of such a change have the broadest appeal!

(Boosts much appreciated 🙏)

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 139 (filmmaker edition) 🎬

Good morning Fedi friends!

I've been quiet over here for a good reason: I'm currently laser-focused on producing a first promo video about the Fediverse. I'm working with two talented interns and today we start filming! More on this here: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114454286121971517

Any free time I have I spend working on a 10 minute presentation about my self-hosting journey, that I will deliver later this month at a FOSS conference. I was invited by the amazing #YunoHost team to speak along with other inspiring folks about using YunoHost to self-host.

All this to say: it's a very very busy month and I may not have much to say about self-hosting per se. But! I just did my Monday morning ritual AKA backing up my YunoHost setup.

Wishing everyone a great week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Three people sit on a couch. On the left: a young man with black hair and a beard wearing a black blazer and white pants; in the middle: a woman with long brown hair (me) wearing a blue and white striped t-shirt and blue jeans, holding a clapper with the text: "Fediverse Promo no.1 by Elena Riyen & Sam - May 2nd 2025"; on the right there is a young man with glasses and light brown hair wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. A bookshelf and various items are visible in the background.
MastodonElena Rossini ⁂ (@_elena@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Good morning Fedi friends! Please join me in giving a warm welcome to my interns Riyen (@patel.riyen@pixelfed.social) & Sam (@samaaberg). They will be working with me through the end of June on videos promoting the Fediverse. This is their #introduction. Sam & Riyen are two talented film students who are #NewHere: a mere 7 days ago they had no idea what the Fediverse was. I have the immense honor of introducing them to it. We are filming this week! Send us good vibes 🎥✨ #EleFediVideos