Post B6irmOKDCHKkOxsjJo by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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(DIR) Post #B6iQBDd3IwnfkdkDmi by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-26T17:41:35Z
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I've warned my normie friends that I'm fed up with FB Messenger and WhatsApp and that I'm going to self-host an alternative and if they want to keep in touch with me, they have to contact me there... Now I'm left wondering what's more lightweight for my modest budget VPS between #Matrix and #XMPP (probably the latter?) and what might favor a smooth transition later to an #OpenBSD VPS (might switch from Hostinger to OpenBSD Amsterdam, though both seem to rely to some degree on bloody Cloudflare)... probably XMPP?
(DIR) Post #B6iQBEwER7jhoPj3Jo by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-05-27T07:45:43Z
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@fionescu Personally, I don't use cloudflare, I expose my own services directly, use firewalls and rate limiting to deal with DDoS, it's possible to exceed my link bandwidth in which case that becomes ineffective but it's infrequent. I provide my own DNS with seven DNS servers.I have multiple reasons for avoiding cloudflare. If your peering is good most of the time cloudflare increases rather than reduces your latency. It blocks legitimate traffic too often. I don't trust many in the middle for security reasons. I worry about giving that much control and power to one agency, if they assume a particular political stance, any site not agreeing with that can become unreachable, slow, or unreliable.I invite you to check out any of my instances, the Friendica I am posting this from at https://friendica.eskimo.com, a Mastodon instance I maintain for those who prefer micro-blogging, https://mastodon.eskimo.com, a hubzilla I use as a protocol bridge and also for channels, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com, Yacy, a federated search engine https://yacy.eskimo.com/, Pixelfed, a federated image gallary https://pixelfed.eskimo.com, and our Nextcloud instance https://nextcloud.eskimo.com and our own website https://www.eskimo.com.All of our machines are running Linux, mostly Ubuntu, with custom kernels, at the time of this posting 6.18.33, we have found the 7.0 service does not perform well with our workload.
(DIR) Post #B6igvxnnZ1wBXi5Am0 by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-27T09:19:02Z
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@nanook Warm greetings, thanks for the invitation! Yacy sounds interesting, never heard of it before! Unfortunately, your Yacy page leads to a 403 for me right now. And you seem to have a spam problem going on in your Mastodon instance? But otherwise, you offer a lot of cool services, respect.I actually run a Hubzilla instance, I wouldn't describe it exactly as a "protocol bridge" - Friendica and Wafrn are bridging ActivityPub with ATProto (I don't like it as much although some interesting software has been made for it, I do have an account whose target audience is literary types, people most of whom use Bluesky rather than Mastodon, but I think they would be better off learning to use the fediverse), Hubzilla just bridges it with Zot, a protocol which seemed to have as sole purpose the nomadic identity which (streams) later implemented with yet another protocol and, more recently, Forte implemented straight into ActivityPub... ah, wait, and also with Diaspora* and GNU Social, but unfortunately they have become history, or am I wrong?I share your views regarding Cloudflare (there are sites I've reduced or stopped using because of their aggressive use of Cloudflare and reCAPTCHA; you must've heard that the next version of the latter is going to restrict access to people using alternative degoogled phones, no?), considering your concern with censorship and lack of privacy and security, I think you shouldn't be using anymore on your server Ubuntu, they have been pushing into production untested Rust code with many bugs and security vulnerabilities. Maybe consider Devuan or Alpine, if not one of the BSDs.
(DIR) Post #B6igvzIK11woAfN3zM by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-05-27T10:53:36Z
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@fionescu Yacy is down at present because I recently booted into a new kernel, 6.18.33, and after a boot yacy takes several hours to rebuild memory index, that is still in progress.
(DIR) Post #B6irmOKDCHKkOxsjJo by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-05-27T12:54:51Z
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@fionescu Yacy is back online now, finished indexing back in service.