Selfhosted

It's literally the core foundation of my entire self-hosting configuration. I could not live without Forgejo. I can't imagine being shackled to Github or some other hosted provider anymore for something as important as my git repositories.

Gitea's okay too in every practical respect, but Forgejo is the more community-led fork and in my opinion less likely to be corporatized and enshittified far in the future, so I've hitched my wagon there and couldn't be happier. The fork is starting to diverge slowly, so it seems like direct migration is no longer possible. That said, git repositories are git repositories, and they have most of the important history and stuff inside them already, so unless you're super attached to stuff like issues and whatever you can still migrate, you'll just lose some stuff.

Huge shout-out to Forgejo. It's blazingly fast, even on low resource devices. Throw it on a Raspberry Pi and chuck it in a closet. I betcha it would have better uptime/reliability than GitHub.

I love forgejo!

What's the flow there? Receive link, copy, open MeTube, paste, download watch?

Tiktok and Instagram links are so frustrating when friends send them.

I have never thought of doing this. That's now going on my server.

Small Update:

I set up Radicale as a replacement for EteSync (as it seems development has stalled, and I am paying for the VPS anyway) and so far it works great. Getting a “shared” calendar to work with symlinks was not that intuitive in a Podman setup, but I got it to work. Thanks for the suggestion!

Nice! I think XMPP is the best approach to messaging, as it is decentralized and can be E2E (and more mature than e.g. Matrix). The problem is that I won't be able to convince anyone I know to use XMPP (Signal was a huge struggle already).

My favorite as well.

Thanks! I own an e-reader, but as the stock software has served me well so far, I haven't had any reason to switch. Is KOReader worth it?

I’m a big fan of static site generators. For the websites I maintain, switching from WordPress to Hugo reduced my workload a lot.

I set up a workflow using DecapCMS + Hugo + GitHub. Non-technical users can log in via GitHub to edit content on the CMS, and GitHub Actions automatically builds and deploys the site via SFTP.

GitHub is kinda meh, but it’s low-cost and gets the job done.

I'm in the process of switching from ipfire to opnsense myself.

I hate how bloaty opnsense is at first glance but it has so much more control so once I copy my current config I'll be leaving ipfire in the dust.

For blogs I found two interesting projects that are super minimal. BashWrite uses only bash and sed commands but it seems to be no longer under development.

Another bash script that seems to have more development activity is BSSG. This one requires a markdown processor such as cmark or pandoc but it's still quite minimal.

I love minimalism and writing scripts so these two projects really interest me.

Does it work well with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy etc.? Or do you still have separate accounts there?

Heads up, ersatzTV is no longer being developed.

2nd time I'm hearing about this service today. How's the experience?

No, so far I just hope nothing breaks :) will take a look!

With so many recommendations in this thread, Forgejo must be great. I've used it with Codeberg, but self-hosting seems a lot better (especially if they introduce federation at some point).

Thanks!