<p>I wanted try out <a href="/tags/deepseek/" rel="tag">#deepseek</a> and <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#Chatgpt</a> o3-mini al little bit and thought: Get your <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> setup cleaned up and those <a href="/tags/nextcloud/" rel="tag">#nextcloud</a> errors.</p><p>In a way I hate to say it, but <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> was way easier and faster than hours spent searching the web, reading reddit and asking in forums. And I totally get why that is: I can't expect that everybody and there grandfather jumps to my help. And AI is borrowed knowledge.</p>
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<p>PSA for people with <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#Wordpress</a> blogs: do you know that you can turn off comments on old posts?<br><br>In the last few months I have noticed a significant uptick in spammy comments on my Wordpress blogs (I have 4).<br><br>Well there is a way to remedy all that: you can simply turn off comments on old blog posts by going to:<br><br>Settings -> Discussion -> and checking "Automatically close comments on old posts"<br><br>(You can even determine the "oldness" of posts, for example, older than 7 days, 14 days... anything you'd like)<br><br>Enabling this made all the difference for me. I could not recommend it more.<br><br>End of my PSA 🤗<br><br>Have a great day everyone!<br><br><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/spam/" rel="tag">#spam</a><br></p>
<p>Any Europe based, free, ACME compatible, with wildcard support, alternative to Let's Encrypt? <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a></p>
<p>🎉 Finally federated!</p><p>After a truly ridiculous amount of stubbornness, debugging, and duct-taping containers together, my Ghost blog is now fully ActivityPub enabled.</p><p>You can now follow my blog directly from the fediverse:<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://blog.laurahargreaves.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>laura</span></a></span> 💜🌹</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/ghost/" rel="tag">#Ghost</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#IndieWeb</a> <a href="/tags/feditech/" rel="tag">#FediTech</a></p>
<p>What is the best option to host a <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> instance with its own domain name? Max four users, most possibly only me. </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a></p>
For those, like me, who want their own space here and prefer self-hosting, I suggest considering snac2. I'm having a great experience with it, and it's easy to install and configure.<br><br><a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#Snac2</a><br>
It looks like Piwigo has decided to gunk up their otherwise useful photo sharing software with AI: <a href="https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=192388#p192388" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=192388#p192388"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?pid=192388#p192388</span></a><br><br>I've been happy with Piwigo for many years but I don't want to end up stuck with a service that's throwing itself into the AI hole. Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted photo sharing services that are similar to Piwigo? I want to be prepared to switch away from it if the need arises.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/piwigo/" rel="tag">#Piwigo</a> <a href="/tags/photosharing/" rel="tag">#PhotoSharing</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a><br>
<p>Self-hosters: What was your most useful self-hosted application of 2024?</p><p>What new self-hosted applications did you add to your server?</p><p>EDIT: Thank you all for replying and boosting!</p><p><a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#selfhosted</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> is so incredibly easy, I really don't know what all the complaints are about. Literally all you need is a degree in digital forensics, unlimited free time, a home office, dedicated high speed internet links, redundant power supplies & a can do attitude!</p>
<p>I published my complete guide for setting up a GoToSocial server! You can find it here: <a href="https://ovelny.sh/blog/a-complete-guide-for-your-gotosocial-server/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ovelny.sh/blog/a-complete-guide-for-your-gotosocial-server/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ovelny.sh/blog/a-complete-guid</span><span class="invisible">e-for-your-gotosocial-server/</span></a></p><p>This is an attempt to cover *everything* you might need after deploying your VPS:</p><p>* Initial setup and hardening.<br>* Reverse proxying using Caddy.<br>* Additional hardening with fail2ban.<br>* Some custom rate limiting.<br>* Web Application Firewall using OWASP Coraza.<br>* Automated backups using restic.</p><p>Everything has been thoroughly tested and should work right away. This is a long guide to follow but is worth the hassle! Feel free to boost if you find this useful 💜</p><p><a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#gotosocial</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#selfhosted</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a></p>
Did anyone ever deploy <a href="https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/" rel="nofollow">fedifetcher</a> with snac?<br>I'm not asking about mastodon but (<a href="https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2</a>)<br>It seems even consecutive runs take over one hour, I've got duplicates of reply trees in my conversations, while still not seeing all replies there are. Also the "database" increased considerable in size.<br><br>I guess it's not fully compatible. But I would like to know what others did with it.<br><br><a href="/tags/fedifetcher/" rel="tag">#fedifetcher</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/tinyfedi/" rel="tag">#tinyfedi</a> <a href="/tags/tinyweb/" rel="tag">#tinyweb</a><br>
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Publishing a photo of approximately 4MB from my snac instance (at home with 20 Mbit/sec uplink) meant overwhelming everything.<br>This happened because, for every remote instance, Nginx was requesting the multimedia file from snac. However, due to saturated connections, it took several seconds, leading to thread exhaustion in snac.<br>I resolved this issue by caching the multimedia files myself using Nginx, which significantly improved performance.<br><br>This matter will be covered in a subsequent (simple) blog post.<br><br><a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/ownyourdata/" rel="tag">#OwnYourData</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a><br>
<p>You served well HDD 🫡. For a while now, I've been thinking that going with RAID-Z2 was a waste of space. But while I'm waiting for the warranty replacement with a degraded pool, I couldn't be happier with my choice.</p><p><a href="/tags/storage/" rel="tag">#storage</a> <a href="/tags/truenas/" rel="tag">#truenas</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a></p>
<p>Would you help a poor single-user Friendica server admin out and boost this post?</p><p>Boosting will increase the number of servers my server federates with.</p><p>Thanks!</p><p>EDIT: that is probably not exactly how it works, but it kinda depends on which of the myriad of ActivityPub servers is seeing the boost, and I haven't checked all of them on how they decide what to pull in. For sure, having someone follow an account on the friendica server will have that friendica server push updates to the server of the follower, but other than that? Who knows :)</p><p>Thanks for the overwhelming amount of boosts anyway, and thanks to those following :)</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#friendica</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a></p>
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<p>Hab mal ein Update gemacht der Dienste die ich so ins Leben gerufen habe.<br><br><br>Meine aktuellen (Stand 02/2025) Dienste die kostenlos genutzt werden können.<br><br>Support für:<br><br>1. <a href="https://dasnetzundich.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dasnetzundich.de</a> (Blog)<br>2. <a href="https://fulda.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fulda.social</a> (das hier)<br>3. <a href="https://larsmueller.net" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>larsmueller.net</a> (privater Blog)<br>4. <a href="https://suche.dasnetzundich.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>suche.dasnetzundich.de</a> (Suche)<br>5. <a href="https://paste.dasnetzundich.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>paste.dasnetzundich.de</a> (Pastebin)<br>6. <a href="https://element.matrixbox.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>element.matrixbox.de</a> (Matrix Server)<br>7. <a href="https://phanpy.fulda.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>phanpy.fulda.social</a> (webclient zu Mastdon usw. <br>8. <a href="https://dackelexpress.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dackelexpress.com</a> (Speedtest)<br>9. <a href="https://cropfiles.dasnetzundich.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cropfiles.dasnetzundich.de</a> (Bilder verkleinern [Alpha Phase]) <br>10. <a href="https://tube.fulda.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>tube.fulda.social</a> (Peertube)<br>11. <a href="https://fedihub.space" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedihub.space</a> (Sharkey)<br>12. <a href="https://mail.dasnetzundich.de" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mail.dasnetzundich.de</a> (Email Server)<br><br><br>Wer mich unterstützen möchte, kann mir gerne etwas in mein Sparschwein werfen <a href="https://www.paypal.me/LarsM1980" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.paypal.me/LarsM1980</a><br><br><a href="/tags/fedimins/" rel="tag">#fedimins</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#Selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/sharkey/" rel="tag">#Sharkey</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a></p>
<p>I host my own Phanpy but there's a feature in dev (automatically populate alt-text if it's embedded in images, yessss!!!) I really want. So, I finally setup a build container for <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@phanpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phanpy</span></a></span> and a small script to extract out the static folder so I can continue serving it out via Caddy. I <a href="https://shom.dev/posts/20251127_phanpy-custom-build-for-self-hosting/" rel="nofollow">wrote a quick post</a> about it, I'm sure there are better and more idiomatic ways of doing this, so advice is welcome.</p><p><a href="/tags/phanpysocial/" rel="tag">#PhanpySocial</a> <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/podman/" rel="tag">#Podman</a> <a href="/tags/caddy/" rel="tag">#Caddy</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> Fail - Internet went down, and backup internet is not available. </p><p>Most of my self hosted things, I'm completely fine with being down for awhile. But I'm considering self hosting my main fediverse account...perhaps I should rethink and just use FediHost for that specifically...</p>
<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> - day 177 (VPS stress test edition) 📈<br><br>Dear Fedi friends,<br><br>You might have noticed I've been a little quiet on here since launching my Fedi promo video. What happened?<br><br>Well well well, the unexpected victim of my viral toot / video was... my beloved <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a> account.<br><br>Approximately 12 hours after posting about my video - a toot that got 1200+ boosts - for some reason federation broke on this account. I was still posting messages and replying but getting zero interactions.<br><br>So yesterday evening, thanks to the amazing help of people on the GoToSocial Matrix help room, I was told to upgrade to the latest version of GoToSocial. And that fixed the problem, yay.<br><br>If you don't mind, I'll copy and paste parts of 2 messages I had tried to publish Tue & Wed:<br><br>((( message from Tue evening )))<br><br>Thank you for all the amazing feedback you shared today re: my Fediverse promo video. I’m really touched.<br><br>Extra thanks to everyone who helped spread the word on Big Tech platforms - to reach a wider audience. I don’t have any accounts there anymore (not even on LinkedIn) so I appreciate your help with fediverse advocacy 🙏<br><br>And special special thanks to all the superheroes who intentionally left the browser tab open on my video to take advantage of PeerTube’s P2P feature, helping offload bandwidth strain from my little server. You rock! 🥹<br><br>((( beginning of message from Wed Jun 11 )))<br><br>The past 24 hours have been incredible! Thank you for all the boosts to the post about my Fedi promo video (over a thousand!)<br><br>It looks like my self-hosted Ghost blog did well with the massive wave of traffic and didn't experience the "Mastodon hug of Death." THANK YOU Varnish cache for it! Total game changer. I could not recommend it more! (As someone who experienced the Mastodon hug of death TWICE before installing Varnish cache) 😅<br><br>So: my <a href="/tags/ghost/" rel="tag">#Ghost</a> blog survived. Ditto for my self-hosted <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> (which is on a separate VPS - installed/managed via <a href="/tags/yunohost/" rel="tag">#YunoHost</a>). The video so far has almost 5000 views - which is pretty good for PeerTube.<br><br>✨ The magic of the fediverse for you ✨<br><br>((( end of pasted messages )))<br><br>Since yesterday, I changed the visibility of the video, making it public. And my VPS is surviving, thanks to PeerTube's P2P and various instances mirroring the video (thank you fellow admins, I owe you big time!)<br><br>I'm just so grateful for all your nice words and support.<br><br>Later today I'll travel to Amsterdam, as I will be speaking at <a href="/tags/pubconf2025/" rel="tag">#PubConf2025</a> about the Fediverse YAY. I'm super honored for this opportunity and I look forward to reconnecting with many other Fediverse advocates who have become friends.<br><br>Exciting times 🥹<br><br>Wishing you all a lovely day! ✨🚀<br><br><a href="/tags/mysocalledsudolife/" rel="tag">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a> <a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a><br><br></p>
<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> - day 76 ✨<br><br>Monday morning, which means: backing up my <a href="/tags/yunohost/" rel="tag">#YunoHost</a> setup.<br><br>I see that <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a> has an update available but I'm too scared to upgrade it. Having my 4th cup of espresso and working up the courage to do it (I hear it takes a looong time). Hoping I don't break anything 😅<br><br>In other news, I am LOVING my <a href="/tags/linkstack/" rel="tag">#LinkStack</a> and having a glimpse into the links that are the most popular (LinkStack offers you a ranking in reverse order of the most clicked links when you log into their dashboard). Is anyone interested in me writing about it? For reference, here is what the front end looks like: <a href="https://elena.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>elena.social</a><br><br>Off I go update my <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a>, wish me luck!<br><br><a href="/tags/mysocalledsudolife/" rel="tag">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a><br><br><br><br><br></p>
<p>a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → <a href="https://sij.law/deepciter" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>sij.law/deepciter</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/digitalpreservation/" rel="tag">#digitalpreservation</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/archivebox/" rel="tag">#archivebox</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/textfragments/" rel="tag">#textfragments</a> <a href="/tags/waybackmachine/" rel="tag">#waybackmachine</a> <a href="/tags/linkrot/" rel="tag">#linkrot</a> <a href="/tags/memoryhole/" rel="tag">#memoryhole</a> <a href="/tags/legaltech/" rel="tag">#legaltech</a> <a href="/tags/permalink/" rel="tag">#permalink</a> <a href="/tags/deepcite/" rel="tag">#deepcite</a></p>
<p>🔥 Want to start your own Bonfire instance?</p><p>We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process. </p><p>✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or just follow along and take notes.</p><p>📆 Vote on possible dates/times: <a href="https://crab.fit/bonfire-install-parties-394649" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="crab.fit/bonfire-install-parties-394649"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crab.fit/bonfire-install-parti</span><span class="invisible">es-394649</span></a> <br>📩 Sign up to be notified: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/a601c2e1e132/bonfire-install-parties" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mailchi.mp/a601c2e1e132/bonfire-install-parties"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/a601c2e1e132/bonfir</span><span class="invisible">e-install-parties</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bonfire/" rel="tag">#Bonfire</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/installparty/" rel="tag">#InstallParty</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a></p>
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<p>Today I'm celebrating a personal milestone: 3 MONTHS of <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> thanks to the magic of <a href="/tags/yunohost/" rel="tag">#YunoHost</a>.</p><p>I'm posting a quick message because I need to leave home in 5 minutes to pick up my little one from nursery school. But I didn't want to let this anniversary pass without my acknowledgement.</p><p>Thank you <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@yunohost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yunohost</span></a></span> team for changing my life in the best possible way and empowering me to self-host my own <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> instances.</p><p>I hope I'll be able to give back one day and help you out on your amazing mission ❤️</p>
If you’re looking to deploy <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#SNAC</a>, the official repo contains example files for different scenarios, including a <a href="/tags/dockerswarm/" rel="tag">#DockerSwarm</a> + <a href="/tags/traefik/" rel="tag">#Traefik</a> reverse proxy config I contributed that runs here.<br><br>If you’d like to test it without compiling and building your own image, the ready-made ones I keep for my own setup are always available at <a href="https://codeberg.org/daltux/-/packages/container/snac/versions" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/daltux/-/packages/container/snac/versions"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/daltux/-/packages</span><span class="invisible">/container/snac/versions</span></a><br><br><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.daltux.net/snac.png" class="emoji" alt=":snac:" title=":snac:"> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.daltux.net/traefik.png" class="emoji" alt=":traefik:" title=":traefik:"> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.daltux.net/dockerSwarm.png" class="emoji" alt=":dockerSwarm:" title=":dockerSwarm:"><br><br><a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/fediadmin/" rel="tag">#fediAdmin</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a><br>
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<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> - day 94 ✨</p><p>Self-hosted Ghost site unveiling - take 2 🎬</p><p>I'm finally ready to show you my self-hosted <a href="/tags/ghost/" rel="tag">#Ghost</a> site: installed on my own, with command lines, with a lot of patience and after many attempts (including 4 VPS wipes).</p><p>It took me a while to migrate all the posts, media and members, but here we go, finally:</p><p>✨ <a href="https://news.elenarossini.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>news.elenarossini.com</a> ✨</p><p>Thanks to your wonderful advice and help (especially by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@shollyethan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>shollyethan</span></a></span>) I got the courage to edit my nginx config and I'm waiting to see if the redirects from the old posts work. It's always DNS... and nginx 😂</p><p>And this is take 2 because I swear this self-hosted Ghost site is slightly cursed and the first time around as soon as I edited the URL of an old Mastodon toot, the site went offline. This happened twice today. Won't touch any URLs and will metaphorically sage the VPS to clear its energy 'cause it's a little cursed 🌿</p><p><a href="/tags/mysocalledsudolife/" rel="tag">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://fedihost.co" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedihost.co</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> instances have been updated to v4.3.9</p><p>Learn more about this release here:<br><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/v4.3.9</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/hosting/" rel="tag">#hosting</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/getfederated/" rel="tag">#GetFederated</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fedihost/" rel="tag">#FediHost</a></p>
