For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism....
Off topic but could you explain a little on how you use a VPS to access your internal services? There’s a few services I want to open up but I don’t trust cloudflare and I don’t want to port forward.
I have not properly tested it, however I had a look at their sample queries. One of which was Steve Jobs, the main thing I noticed was that three of the top 5-10 results were the Wikipedia page for Steve jobs but in different languages. I appreciate that Google isn’t great but it’s not bad enough to serve you the same page three times. I personally use searxng.
I just checked the test results again and it still has the three Wikipedia pages for Steve Jobs. It makes me question how good their results are, but I am glad it works for you :)
I understand that probably there is little interest if you are a device ROM maintainer to embed a backdoor into it. But it’s still possible. Lineage has a fairly simple and open build process. Should I do it on my own? Or should I trust the maintainers and not bother? What are your thoughts?
It’s a very valid question in my opinion and as is often the case with security, it really depends on your individual threat model and threat tolerance. As you said it seems pretty unlikely that a maintainer would install malicious code as they have a reputation to protect. And as mentioned by another commenter, even if you compiled the code yourself, unless you can audit code yourself you still have to just trust the developers. Personally for my threat tolerance, I do not see the risk as big enough to warrant the extra effort.
Im not sure I agree here, I host my own libreddit instance and I have no issues with rate limits. I would highly recommend going your own instance if you can
It’s probably an issue with the instances having too many users instead of libreddit being broken. It might be worth trying to find a smaller instance or trying to host your own. Hosting libreddit was my first step into hosting services using docker and it was surprisingly easy
I can’t test mine right now as it’s only accessible on the internal network and I’m not home. But it was working when I last used it a few days ago, I think it might be a combination of the the api changes and public instance being overloaded with too many requests and hitting the new api limits. When I can I will test my instance and let you know if it still works, If it does I would recommend that you do look into hosting your own as it will provide even more privacy than a public instance and will lesson the load on the public instances. Feel free to ask me any questions about hosting libreddit (or teddit) if you do decide to host it yourself!
What got you into selfhosting and what was the first thing that you hosted?
For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism....
Guide to Self-Hosting Lemmy with Individual Containers & Existing NGINX Instance.
Problem Statement...
Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)? (kagi.com)
Basically the title....
Should I build LineageOS myself? (upload.wikimedia.org)
I understand that probably there is little interest if you are a device ROM maintainer to embed a backdoor into it. But it’s still possible. Lineage has a fairly simple and open build process. Should I do it on my own? Or should I trust the maintainers and not bother? What are your thoughts?
Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead
It appears API rate limiting has effectively killed these alternatives. You essentially get nothing but “Too many requests” 429 errors....