Also might be worth thinking about what else you are self hosting. Don't want to self host all of your communication apps; that would be brittle.
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Oh, I am running a bunch of things already, so adding one more to the stack is not a real problem for me. The only service I would think at least 100 times before even trying is email; yes, it is tempting to do it, but just thinking at all the ways that could go wrong gives me nightmares.
I have tried snac before as a minimalist fediverse server but the blog style layout isn’t really for me.
I have also considered wether a personal Lemmy is a good idea or not.
There's no reason to run your own instance just for yourself.
generally it is fine but it is kind of resource intensive
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HASS | Home Assistant automation software |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| LVM | (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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