Quite far:

• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240
• https://forgefed.org/

I tried to compare some backup solutions a while back: https://hedgedoc.ptman.name/kket4uo9RLiJRnOhkCzvWw#

Forget about docker. Run caddy or some similar webserver that is a single file next to the assets to serve.

How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.

I would also welcome decent micropayments (maybe digieuro?), so that you wouldn’t need to subscribe, but could pay 0.045€ for something without it being unfeasible because of fixed transaction costs.

I can only approve of people paying for services they use. It isn’t free to run. But there are several things to consider:

• $1/year is very low, transaction fees for accepting that amount of money are high
• It’s a low price for successful bots
• Doesn’t remove ads (take money from subscribers or advertisers, not both, also print media)
• Doesn’t give you better control over your experience. The paying customer should be the one being listened to
• This is Elon Musk’s twitter we’re talking about, how long until he changes his mind again?

Another surge on mastodon? Countries, cities, public organisations should put up their own mastodon like EU, BBC and Germany have.

Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.

https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.

https://joinmatrix.org/guide/matrix-vs-discord/

Riot games forced them to change the name.

Got bought

cryptpad si quite good

Gandi is no longer a good choice

Thanks to sliding sync this is very snappy compared to old element.

Element X is built on the rust SDK which should support multiple accounts. https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/discussions/1832

I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.

what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?

HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.

I’m waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)

What are the current alternatives?

• Idrive e2 $4/TB/month
• Backblaze B2 6$/TB/month
• Wasabi $7/TB/month
• Cloudflare R2 $15/TB/month
• AWS S3 $21/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
• GCP $20/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
• Oracle $25/TB/month
• Azure $18.4/TB/month
• DigitalOcean / Linode / Vultr ~ $20/TB/month

Depends on your usecase

https://gitjournal.io/

Prevent password auth and setup sshguard. Wireguard is very nice in that it doesn’t support password auth.

nagios (and check_mk) are plain old tech. Newer ones have been built with lessons learned. zabbix I don’t like because configuration is in a database. prometheus is nice because it’s performant and configuration is in a file (which can be version controlled in git and deployed with e.g. ansible). Data in database, config in plain text files.

I’ve used nagios, check_mk, zabbix and currently using prometheus + grafana. I suggest prometheus + grafana. But you may want to use netdata as the exporter instead of node_exporter. Or both.

rsync + borg, but looking at bupstash

Matrix