What is Selfhosting

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(00:24) Hosted Service Definition

• Account you have access to: web hosting, Dropbox, email, etc.
• “I would like an account on your service”

(01:22) Selfhosted Definition

• VPS, Dedicated, Colo, Garage, Old Laptop you maintain.
  • often Single point of failure
  • Distribution is part of our grand experiment!

(03:00) Status of the podcast

• Please do spread the word if you enjoy the show!
• Castopod moved onto a hosted instance.
  • Castopod supports subscribing from the fediverse
• Now accepting paypal donations
• Domain registrar I recommend - Porkbun
• Podcast Index
• Value 4 Value & podcasting 2.0 listening support added for those on compatible clients.
• Join our Matrix Chat
  • Draupnir moderation bot. Fork of Mjolnir.

(07:40) What tool do you find the most indispensable?

• Send in your thoughts to our Matrix chat or to podcast@james.network

My top tools: notes and a password manager.

(08:05) KeePass - 20+ years of goodness on all platforms! Portable, encrypted, awesome.

• Distribute your databases to better manage your services
• People have paid me to teach them this!
• Friends & Family approved open source!
  • KeepassXC on Linux, Mac, Windows
  • Keepassium on iOS
  • KeepassDX on Android

(10:20) Hey, where is my keepass? sketch

(11:30) RSS protocol for updates & notifications.

• The introverts “social” network dashboard
• As good as you make it. Be patient.
• Basis for all podcasting

(12:10) RSS Clients - use them on any device to get started.

• RSSowl - barebones and available on Linux Windows, MacOS. Java based.
• Newsboat - top notch terminal application. Successor to Newsbeuter.

(13:20) RSS Server applications

• Adds multi-user support, sharing, archiving, filtering, sync to clients.
• FreshRSS
• Miniflux
• Tiny Tiny RSS
• Nextcloud News filter issue

(16:45) Do you have recommendations for RSS compatible services? Let us know!

(17:00) feed2toot - relay you feed into the fediverse of services like Mastodon and this podcast (Castopod).

(17:20) RSS-bridge convert URL services to RSS

• Public instances available for you to try.
• Subscribe to Youtube, Twitter and much more

(18:15) searxng - meta-search engine that supports subscribing to results as RSS.

(18:40) Wallabag self-hosted PHP archive for web links.

• Subscribes to RSS Feeds
• integrates with RSS server applications mentioned above as a Sharing feature

(19:00) Archivebox is another great self-hosted archive.

(19:30) Nextcloud Bookmarks.

• Floccus front end for Firefix, Chrome, Edge, etc. to Nextcloud Bookmarks, WebDAV, Linkwarden, Git, Google Drive by same dev.
• Subscribe to your Bookmarks folders as RSS!
• Share bookmarks with your other RSS services.