(Justin)
Tech nerd from Sweden
You should use synapse. Dendrite is not intended for self-hosted homeservers. You will have an easier time with calling/rtc with synapse as well.
Here is a good example of how to set up a home server, which was shown off by the devs at fosdem last weekend:
Requires using its custom certificate authority. Nice for scraping without root access, but it won’t work for all programs. Openssl injection/ebpf is more flexible, but I’m not sure if there’s a tool that can do that.
yeah you just have to find words that are unique to the thing you’re buying.
I usually searched for 1942 army greatcoat, since those words are pretty unique.
yeah, the jeans I bought weren’t recycled, but they do have a system for recycling them when they’re worn out.
I bought a 1942 army great coat off of ebay, lots of them up there. I bought a 1980’s navy peacoat at a random vintage store somewhere around Alphabet City in NYC. Be aware that most people size those coats 4-6 down because they’re meant to go over multiple thick shirts, blouses, and midlayers in military use, but with a normal shirt and sweater you don’t need them so large.
I think it depends on exactly what item you’re looking for. Plenty of vintage coats out there, I just bought two 40+ yo military wool coats this season since my old jacket is wearing out and isn’t that stylish. There’s probably local jeans manufacturers that also recycle fabric, like Jeansverket in Sweden. Rose Anvil on YouTube is a good source for finding boots that will last decades.
There is definitely enshittification out there, but it’s not impossible to find BIFL out there.
Of the services OP is asking about, I’ve only run Lemmy, but I will say that running fediverse services are quite advanced, which is exactly what k8s is made for - Running advanced web applications.
I’m firmly on the “k8s at any scale” team. If you can figure out how to run the k3s install command and are willing to look at some yaml documentation, you will have a much easier time setting up database and networking, running backups, porting your infrastructure to other providers, and maintaining everything, than with legacy control panels or docker compose. The main reason why Docker Compose is so much more accessible for self-hosters is because of the quantity of noob-focused documentation for Docker Compose, But learning either system requires learning the same concepts of containers, IP adresses, storage, etc. Docker Compose also has some disk and networking shortcuts for single-server workloads, but they also have their downsides (what is a macvlan?).
The main reason why I think Kubernetes is critical for this specific workload is the number of production-critical databases that OP will need to run. OP will be running something like 4-8 postgres databases, with high uptime and 100% durability requirements. Trying to do that manually with Docker compose just isn’t feasible unless you’re willing to code. Kubernetes makes all of that automated with CNPG. See how easy it is to create a database and have automated backups to S3 with Kubernetes
The biggest challenge for kubernetes is probably that the smaller applications don’t come with example configs for Kubernetes. I only see mastodon having one officially. Still, I’ve provided my config for Lemmy, and there are docker containers available for Friendica and mbin (though docker isn’t officially supported for these two). I’m happy to help give yaml examples for the installation of the applications.
I would recommend installing k3s and cnpg on the VPS. These will make it easier to run the various containers and databases you will need to run lemmy, etc. This is the standard way that big companies run servers in 2025, and it’s 100% portable to any server/hosting company just through copying and pasting the yaml files (like docker compose).
https://docs.k3s.io/quick-start
https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.25/quickstart/
Make sure you save backups of your VPS, and use object storage to backup your databases.
I have example kubernetes configuration for lemmy on my Git. It doesn’t use any volumes/local-storage, all user data is saved into either the database or object storage, to make it cheap and easy to backup.
I’m a professional DevOps engineer, so I work with hosting every day. Let me know if you have any questions or want advice.
Ah, fair. I guess it makes sense that Wall Street is questioning the need for these expensive blackwell gpus when the hopper gpus are already so good?
Nvidia cards were the only GPUs used to train DeepSeek v3 and R1. So, that narrative still superficially holds. Other stocks like TSMC, ASML, and AMD are also down in pre-market.
Bizarre story. China building better LLMs and LLMs being cheaper to train does not mean that nVidia will sell less GPUs when people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump can’t shut up about how important “AI” is.
I’m all for the collapse of the AI bubble, though. It’s cool and all that all the bankers know IT terms now, but the massive influx of money towards LLMs and the datacenters that run them has not been healthy to the industry or the broader economy.
It all makes sense now!
Elon Musk thinks he’s very important
Jokes on them, I have always defederated them
Very serious vulnerability. These systems likely haven’t been revised since the 80s or 90s.
They also have Liberapay, OpenCollective and Patreon:
Right, and wouldn’t the rings be pretty fragile considering how long they are? So it would probably have similar bioactivity as like olive oil.
Space elevator companies seem to think that materials exist that are strong enough, just that they are not long enough.
https://www.isec.org/space-elevator-tether-materials
Very much layman conjecture, but my assumption is that this material is stronger than carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Any law that prevents me from counterfeiting money is an intolerable encroachment on my right to free speech
The red Swedish fish are not from Sweden