Stantana

Domains can be free and several of them works flawlessly with DDNS for home hosting. You can set up a completely free Nextcloud. Self-signed certs and direct IP access works as well.

Somebody else mentioned setting up a VPN to your home LAN, that works fine too.

I don’t come on Lemmy to connect with other people, I do it to get content. It’s nice to discuss the content, but that’s secondary.

I’ve seen a script that runs in the background which auto-deletes images from the pict-rs storage over a certain time threshold and if there’s been no activity on the post.

Can’t remember what it was called though.

On my instance we track what posts you look at, vote at and how long you view the post so it’s easier to host dedicated ads based on your browsing pattern. You have some weird fetish? Particular humor? Love or hate Palestine or Israel? Well we have just the ads for you! :D

Who knows what they do with the info, it probably ends up in the giant databases where the IP we sell is matched with the IP you use to browse your bank, mail etc. so you’re deanonymized. Don’t worry, it’s on page 6/21 of the TOS with small letters so you’ll legally agree that we can do it.

It’s a very good deal for us, it costs almost nothing to host your stuff but we get a lot in return for selling your info. Welcome!

And now there’s a growing disagreement between some users and the Nextcloud devs. We’re told to hack our systems to disable a badly working “AI” mail inbox, same with privacy leaks from the text editor. Asking if Nextcloud Talk can work on non-google phones, users are borderline insulted for wanting something different than what the devs deem we want. There’s so many features that’s advertised that doesn’t work right or at all. In particular NC Social and E2EE, two “massive” features that first drew me to Nextcloud years ago. They still don’t work.

I don’t want an AI assistant system most self-hosters can’t use anyways (AFK it needs a beefy GFX card, which most VPS and self-hosting setups don’t have access to), I want to be able to write down links in my text-files without my “privacy conscious” server visiting the link to get a preview.

I just want a system I don’t have to fight and Nextcloud is increasingly becoming one.

Or just like a *monkey script to bake it into the native web interface.

The karma culture is more due to those who vote on stuff and we already have a vibrant shitposting culture in the meme sections.

I don’t quite see how a personal total karma overview would change that, if anything I believe it’s an incentive to post a lot, i.e. providing content. It’s the community that deems if it’s upvoted or not and we get a low-quality culture.

Briar have solved this by using a “mailbox”, a small app installed on any android phone and just left at home. It acts as an always-online node that relays the messages to the reciever when they get online, or have the messages in a queue ready for when the senders contacts get online.