Is it safe to use IPFS without a VPN ?

The best guide isn’t written down: don’t be afraid to try a few instances until you find one you like!

Once you’re on Mastodon and following people, you’ll start to notice the servers and gravitate towards the ones you like.

I would advise against mastodon.social since it is the biggest and also has some problems with moderation. But some people like it, so maybe it is good enough also.

To choose a server, check out https://fedi.tips/which-server-should-i-join-how-do-i-find-out-more-about-a-server/

The fedi.tips account also posts a lot of helpful tips and themed lists of accounts to follow/discover so I recommend following them too!

For some reason I thought Nostr was started up by someone else and Dorsey just liked it

There’s a lot of artists selling stuff on Mastodon but I don’t think you can have a job as a mastodon influencer

What’s good for freedom is bad for ease of use.

I do it too. I guess I trust cloudflare more than the public Internet but when I have more money I’ll do it right

It helped me out

How do you make a tissue dance?

Put a little boogie in it

Blue Sun

Thanks for the recommendation! Are there eBay search terms I should know? Used PC workstation?

Where my snake bitees at?

Was biking/exploring in the woods and got bit on the ankle by what I later figured out was a copperhead. Couldn’t bike to the ER so I had to bike to the edge of the woods and meet the ambalance there.

Copperhead venom digests/destroys tissue, but the antivenom can kill you since it’s made from horse blood and you could be addicted, so they gave me 10 bags over the course of the night and stuck me in the ICU just in case. The person in the room next to me ended up dying from whatever they were there for. At this point my foot had swelled up like an exam glove you blew into to make a balloon. But it started going down after the 5th bag of antivenin. Which felt like ice in my veins.

The next morning basically I was good to go, but it was expensive. I was a teenager but my mom had to fight the insurance company to get them to pay which was the real horror story of all this.

I’m not sure if matrix will ever be able to overcome this hurdle

Goodbye built human world !

In an ideal world I’d host on an Intel nuc or similar, but for the time being a raspberry pi 4 is all I can afford.

I think you’re right, it was running out of ram before. It hasn’t done that since I’ve moved to nextcloudpi, thankfully.

I have a separate raspi 4 with yunohost that was slated for other experimental purposes, like Jitsi, but I’m still early in that process.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions, I learned a lot and I’ll continue to check back also.

My nextcloud raspberry pi server used to crash when it tried to do anything difficult, like open too many photos in a row. I adjusted some settings to try and keep it from running out of memory, but I’m not a very skilled sysadmin, and I’m using nextcloudpi now which adds another later of abstraction in an attempt to have saner defaults.

In a perfect world I would do this, but for nextcloud at least, I have to be able to access it from public computers where I cannot install and configure tailscale.

Sometimes I want to share services with friends and family too.

And Synology support for tailscale sounds like it’s finicky unfortunately.

Interesting, I already use cloudflare DNS and had “proxy” turned on for nextcloud, but I still had to open 80 and 443 on my router, so I’ll look up how to set up the free tunnel sometime

Thanks for the information. I will have to look into SNI and see if my router can support it – if I move someday to an ISP behind a more restrictive firewall, this system looks pretty good. (Or if I get unhappy with one reverse proxy handling everything).

Thank you, this looks like a great guide