Cool! Home Assistant has it and I can imagine Nextcloud as well but those are overkill just for that.

Don’t have a good guide, but in addition on the thing you plan to selfhost yourself you need to decide where it’s supposed to run. In a rented VM from a hoster? There are several ones where you can get a decent VM for a few bucks each month.

Nowadays, Docker (or containers in general) are very popular, as an alternative to directly installing services on the vm. They make many things easier, but it’s another thing to learn about when you’re just starting - fortunately, there’s plenty of guides etc!

Yes

I don’t know all of the tools, do you mean the tor relay?

On Android or postmarketOS? Very cool regardless!

I think the only thing where you can mix CPU architectures without much problems and doing something meaningful with would be a Kubernetes Cluster, e.g. install K3S across the machines.

As others mentioned, the 3rd gen CPUs are probably using quite a lot of power. I’d get something to measure how much the whole machines draw from the wall and decide if you’re fine with that (measure while there’s actually something going over the network interface and some r/w operations).

The CPUs should be powerful enough to run most classic selfhosted apps.

Ghost Activitypub support is still in the making unfortunately. You can selfhost ghost already and if you check out the latest version you also have AP, but they said it’s not stable yet and might break. Eagerly waiting for them to finish.

I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.

Never heard of this so far but maybe. Would be interesting to try

What would they do about it?

That’s what I thought. Btw, your formatting seems to be broken.

Absolutely agree. I didn’t like the crosspost bots but this button? Sounds great.

Yes, mostly just the hostnames

How do you set up clients so they will always use the first one? I thought if a client knows 2 servers they will switch between them.

I plan to add a second Pihole at some point and keep them synced

Everybody knows by now, there’s it’s own community for it. It really doesn’t need to be posted here every day

Not much to do against scraping. On a small (but actively moderated) instance, a spamming bot will easily be detected and hopefully suspended. Generally, moderation is often better on smaller instances, so I’m not too worried about people migrating towards bigger instances - usually it’s the other way round.

For 2. - dedicated corp instances will be defederated from many instances quickly. Bridge accounts on other instances need to be dealt with by the mods.

Yes, of course this can increase moderation effort. But spam accounts are way more easy to deal with from a moderation perspective than issues between real human users which usually takes wayyy more effort to deal with.

That’s cool! I’ve always had the idea of a small k3s cluster on old phones with postmarketOS. I guess it doesn’t work with older phones which don’t have the latest Android Version but given the homelab trend generally goes towards small, low power devices, this could continue the trend with super small and low power phones. Probably in 2 years when current gen phones rotate out of company leasing contracts?

Does your router have webinterface where you can monitor and potentially limit network usage of devices?

I’m not too familiar with the arr stack but if it is constantly downloading videos it’s probably using full bandwidth. Maybe you can also limit in the arr settings or throttle the network interface on the laptop.

Are you selfhosting on your Desktop? What exactly is the use case? I’d recommend different distros for a server or a desktop.

I think there’s several open source rss-to-lemmy bots already so I think there’s not much need for another one. If you want to do it for experience go ahead but not sure it’s necessary.

Also, be careful with how often the bot posts etc. Filling inactive communities with botposts usually does not help with actual user activity.