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What are the most promising projects/services aiming at making self hosting easier for everyone?

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[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Projects like Freedom Box were attempting this 10+ years ago, or even simpler, a home server that basically sits on your powerplug. AFAIK it sort of petered out fast, at least in the public mind, and I think it's a shame. It had potential and was even more basic than the Lego approach.

[–] marathon@liberdon.com 1 points 8 months ago (7 children)

@halm I use FreedomBox or want to, but it doesn't seem to support that much in terms of software, as I remember it once did. Perhaps I'm remembering wrong. I was hoping it would support more Fediverse server software, like some of the lighter fedi server software.

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Right? Maybe the FreedomBox suite just feels scarce after the Yunohosts and the CasaOSs that have appeared in the meantime with much larger app offerings.

Nowadays people are spoilt for choice — and I'm not complaining! — so maybe there's a market for a FreedomBox-like plug server with a Docker setup out of the box and a GUI to Docker hub?

Edit: It actually looks like CasaOS are trying for something like that with their Zimaboard single board server. I'm a little wary that the company is based in China but I'm also typing this on my Oneplus phone, so who am I to judge.

[–] marathon@liberdon.com 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@halm Docker seems like a good idea:After all that what's flatpaks are right? Apps in a docker like space, self contained?

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 8 months ago

As far as I understand it, yes. I think Flatpaks are isolated from the wider system but maybe pool dependencies to avoid redundancy, while dockers are fully sandboxed from each other?

I may be wrong, flatpaks were never really my cup of tea.

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