In time,

I hope to set up a tiny self hosted instance running on a Raspberry Pi. Containing my personal bubble of interests. In other words it will be my virtual cyber essence.

My cyber-sole/soul if you like, the best bits. Calling my Lemmy/Fediverse instance, Operation Horcrux.

IT is a dream. Expecto Patronum …

  • Estinos@lemm.ee
    6·
    2 years ago

    It does indeed sound amazing. I wanted to go even further and implement my own activitypub based features on my webserver, in order to make it behave exactly like I want, while still being able to interact with Lemmy and Mastodon, how cool would that be?

    But then I stopped, considering the privacy considerations. I’ve spent years removing myself from the web, from a time where we were considering that being “highly googlable” was cool, and then I came back with perfectly sillo’d identities, only using thematic forums (or alike) and never linking my profiles with one another, so that I can’t be profiled easily. Putting all my social activity in one place where one can just GET /outbox on a server known to belong to me to get all my activities sounds quite a step backward from that. I’m still considering it, though, because I really want to be in control of my data. But I need to figure a way to do it that would not be a regression in privacy.

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I finally did this today. Well, my instance accepts applications, but right now it’s only me, and I want to keep it small. It wasn’t too hard to deploy, took maybe an hour if you have some Linux knowledge. As for costs, I launched it on a VM with Vultr.com, one of the cheapest ones at $8/month. So far it’s running very well and the CPU usage is below 30% all the time. The benefit of being tiny, I guess. Anyway, what I’m saying is… go for it! It’s relatively easy and cheap.

  • lobster@sopuli.xyzOP
    3·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback guys. ❣️🫵🙏 I am calling my soul server OPERATION HORCRUX. Really in honour of the presently unfashionable Black Hat Death Eaters …

    Obviously I hope in time to have several instances. Possibly on a quantum or organic neurone chip if available. Maybe in another dimension/dream world.🤩

    But for now before I am overtaken by my dank side:😇

    • Have a raspberry pi 3 available, could not find the right cable for the pi 4
    • Trying to use my existing hardware for my first piece/peace/instance
    • Am plugged into home ethernet and a relatively fast fibre optic cable service

    My next tasks: To prepare/format a micro SD card and find a one piece raspberry pi solution. Not sure if I want a Virtual Box/Machine solution. Probably a dedicated Pi Server would be best? I could then white list a savvy friend and MAYBE family … in which case would maybe start with a HTML page and passwords to be given out personally. Wot fun! (I iz such a computer nerd)🤗

    Sadly only Herpo the Foul and Tom Riddle know how to make HorCrux. Fortunately I am not daunted by fantasy … 🤓😁🦞

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I too hope to host one some day. Can’t right now, but that would very nice. My own personal island. Well, having an account is like your personal island too, but there’s something about hosting your own instance that feels nice. I hope to host my own DNS, reverse-proxy, web server (for the little websites, if I ever write some code), and other services too, someday.

    Cheers