Ahh so bots are finding subdomains by scraping SSL certificates?

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Would everyone like to use https://piefed.social/static/media/logo_42QRH_152.png as the template?

Good question.

A GUI will be easier to get into - you can use a gui file browser app to learn the layout of the file system, you can use a GUI text editor to change config files, that sort of thing. It’ll mean you can do a few basic things intuitively which will be less intimidating. So from a maintaining momentum and morale point of view it might be best to have a GUI initially even though you have to learn all the cli stuff eventually anyway and you’ll most likely be running a headless server on real hardware eventually.

Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn’t really one guide that covers everything.

Anyway, as a general road map:

1. Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.

2. Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.

3. In the VM, try some docker containers until you’re comfortable-ish with docker.

4. Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.

5. Get hardware suitable for your goals.

6. Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.

Replying to this post with an AI slop comment takes some balls, mate

No obvious signs, nope. It wasn’t until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.

There’s a bug in PieFed. Take it easy.

Well, yeah. There are lots of reasons. But basic self-interest is something we can all agree on.

I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, wrote a few issues describing some showstopping bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.

That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.

The author’s video is a good intro to theming KDE, I learned a lot from it.

Oh yeah, piefed.zip is running an old version.

It’s this thing

It’s only shown if you cast any votes since midnight and that wasn’t long ago so perhaps you hadn’t yet.

Have a look on your profile, how much you vote is shown there.

The quota resets at midnight, UTC.

That would just cause those 10 people to hate me. I don’t want to anger the people who determine what gets seen and what gets buried. That demonstrates the whole problem with having 10 people controlling everything - it’s a power imbalance.

Anyway you would not recognize most of them. The people who vote a ton are not the same people who comment and post a lot.

No, PieFed has no telemetry or page view tracking.

I signalled to the posters and commenters that I like what they shared and hopefully encouraged them to continue contributing to this place.

You can do that much more effectively by writing a comment. Even just “Cool, thanks for sharing!” would have more emotional impact on the author than receiving 100 upvotes.

Exactly!

You could use apache to create a webdav share. I bet there’s a pre built container for it.

Webdav is really underrated, imo.

Really old CPUs (486 or earlier) lack the computing power to do SSL at any decent speed. So you’re limited to serving http, gopher, nntp, or telnet. Maybe IRC.

You could have a modern computer handle the SSL connection and proxy requests through to the antique but some of the purity of the thing is lost by doing that.

To clarify - we’ve had that setting for a long time and it won’t be automatically changed on existing instances unless an admin chooses to. I’ve just changed the default of it for new instances (of which there are much less, lately).

It’s the easiest way to stop scrapers, way easier than getting Anubis or fail2ban working properly. Unfortunately it comes at the cost of walling off an instance but most instances are for individual / small group use so it’s an ok default to have.