Setting up and running your own Fediverse instance is an incredibly empowering thing. A good analogy for it is: imagine you have been renting apartments your whole life and then purchase a home. Your home, where you make all the rules, customize it to your liking and take great care of it because it's YOUR home. That's precisely what I have been doing for a digital home - on the Fediverse - with my GoToSocial microblogging instance: @elena@aseachange.com.

If the thought of self-hosting makes you immediately tune out, thinking: "oh my, this sounds so complicated and unattainable for a regular, non-technical person" well, I can understand. I had that exact mindset as recently as November 2024. Heck, even December 2024. But then I took the plunge and never looked back. I'm here to tell you about my journey of tech empowerment, made possible by YunoHost and GoToSocial.

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I've always wanted to do this, but I can't afford a VPS. And everytime I look into self-hosting on hardware at home, I just get the impression that it's nearly impossible... My ISP forbids it, and even if I can evade their notice, people say having a public facing setup at home is bound to get you attacked eventually

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

racknerd 60$ a year 3core 6gb ram can run a lot, littlecreekhosting 3.50 a month 4core 8gb or 7 amonth 8core 16 (you gotta comment on their post on low end talk for littlecreek or you get half ram)

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

or free oracle vps , domain is around 12$ a year but porkbun has most domains for half off first year or less, .ing is half off, .buzz is like 1$

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 points 20 hours ago

I got into webhosting rabbithole like a month ago if it isnt obvious, those are the best deals ive found, hetzner, 5$ a month, pay by the hour, is my favorite for testing stuff for cheap if you remember to delete it, invoiced 3rd of the month

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