#Selfhosting

January 8, 2025
00:23

Elk: A nimble Mastodon web client

In order to host Elk yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with elk. Be aware, that Elk only loads properly if the connection is done via SSL/TLS. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You’ll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Elk behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX etc.

An alternative to Phanpy, which also works with GoToSocial instances. At least this looks more robust than Phanpy. Gotta deploy one soon.

Edit: Wasn’t able to deploy successfully. Sad.

BM325 Fediverse, GoToSocial, Mastodon, Selfhosting
January 7, 2025
22:54

Fediverse Explorer

Browse most recent public posts across the fediverse by hashtag.

This is a great project. Lots of posts I’ve discovered from using this hashtag search. I know the source is on Github, but I wish this is easily selfhostable complete with Docker and compose documentation.

See Github page and blog post.

BM324 Fediverse, GoToSocial, Mastodon, Selfhosting
22:34

Media Caching - GoToSocial Documentation

GoToSocial uses the configured storage backend in order to store media (images, videos, etc) uploaded to the instance by local users, as well as to cache media attached to posts and profiles federated in from remote instances.

GoToSocial total storage space usage currently stands at 3.9GB. If this gets out of hand, I may need to add in the environment variable of the compose.yml file:

GTS_MEDIA_REMOTE_CACHE_DAYS: 2
BM323 GoToSocial, Selfhosting
15:13

Fediscanner

Scan and find hashtag outside your fediverse instance.
A Simple PHP Script to crawl Hashtags in the Fediverse.
BM322 Fediverse, Selfhosting
January 6, 2025
10:14

Paperless AI

An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API and Ollama (Mistral, llama, phi 3, gemma 2) to automatically analyze and tag your documents.

See post on Reddit.

If only this could help minimize Paperless’ memory (RAM) usage.
BM316 OpenAI, Paperless, Selfhosting
10:08

Bitwarden/Vaultwarden - Finally with SSH keys (and agent)

Bitwarden, and by extension Vaultwarden, is finally receiving support for managing SSH keys AND authenticating via a built-in SSH agent!
Gotta revisit my Vaultwarden installation. This, and the 2FA feature of Vaultwarden, a paid feature in Bitwarden, are enough reasons to maintain a working Vaultwarden container.
BM315 Bitwarden, SSH, Selfhosting, Vaultwarden
09:53

ErsatzTV: A Comprehensive Guide to setting up a Private IPTV Server

Experience the power of community-driven video streaming with Ersatz TV - personalize your channels, stream your own content, and embrace a diverse media landscape!
Gotta find time to run this app. There’s a simple docker compose to get it easily going.
BM314 Movies, Selfhosting, TVShows
January 3, 2025
22:43

Lurker - a selfhostable read-only Reddit client

It is better than old-reddit because it renders well on mobile, it respects prefers-color-scheme, no account necessary to subscribe to subreddits, and no account necessary for over-18 content
BM312 Reddit, Selfhosting
22:32

RSS.Beauty: Make Your RSS Beautiful!

RSS.Beauty is an RSS beautification tool based on XSLT technology that transforms ordinary RSS/Atom feeds into elegant reading interfaces.
This could prove to be a good tool for examining RSS contents.
BM311 Rss, Selfhosting
22:21

GoShort URL Shortener

GoShort is a fast and customizable URL shortener built with Go , Svelte and TailwindCSS. It is designed to be self-hosted and easy to deploy.
One of the many self-hostable URL shortener we might want to check out later.
BM310 Selfhosting, URLShortener