Magari potessimo saltare la settimana ed arrivare direttamente al venerdì.
Ok, dall'estate a Novembre in 60 minuti: fatto! 😲
I never knew that European eels were endangered. 😞
Voi utilizzate applicazioni particolari per prendere le note?
Io dopo averne trovate diverse sono tornato ad utilizzare delle semplici TO-DO list. ⚡
Alcune mie riflessioni sul self-hosting e del perché non è per tutti. ⚡
Where are we going? 🥾📷
It seems Google / YouTube want to stop Invidious. Problem for them is that the project does not belong to anyone… It’s FOSS.
St. Bartholomew’s church ⛪📷
My blogging journey
I’ve recently written about the drawbacks of self-hosting. In that article I talked about it from a generic and technical point of view.
Let’s get more personal now. 😉
Many years ago I was self-hosting Wordpress for my blog, but at some point I realized I was spending more time upgrading, customizing & fixing problems than writing something on it.
This situation was so frustrating that I decided to stop blogging many times because I had a sort of internal conflict. From one side I enjoyed blogging, but at the same time I didn’t have the willing to work on it from the technical side.
I even tried Wordpress.com but it didn’t appealed me at that time.
So I gave up my blogging activity for some time till I found a service that suited my needs.
Which blogging platform drew my attention? Hold on, in the next article I will tell you which service I’m talking about.
Flowers in the woods 📷
An old farmhouse 📷
It’s time for bookcrossing 📚
Is self-hosting for everybody?
Self-hosting is great: you control the server, the software & your data. That’s all. Or not?
I think there is a lot understimation about the drawbacks related to self-hosting.
I self-hosted Wordpress for several years and during that time I had some issues while upgrading it, also theme and plugin conflicts where always behind the corner.
Wordpress is a great piece of sofware and very versatile. It is easily customizable, but this can also be a problem once we talk about compatibility. Something can break suddenly and if you are self-hosting you have to understand what’s going wrong.
What I experienced with Wordpress can happen with every piece of software you decide to install on your server. It can be Nextcloud or a Mastodon instance, no matter what you install, there may always be some problems while running your software.
Another issue while we talk about self-hosting is security. Server misconfiguration can expose your data to hackers, if you are not a security expert data breaches could be part of the game.
In my opinion self-hosting is great because you have full control of everything, but such power comes with great responsibility.
You need time to understand the software, install it, update it and fixing if something is going wrong.
All of this requires time and time is money.
If you are not a techie person (or if you don’t want to spend much time working on the server) then probably you should look for an hosted service.
A casual shot in the middle of nowhere 🤷♂️📷
Luckily there is not only Mastodon. I really like that there are different fediverse softwares like Calckey, Pixelfed, Soapbox, Akkoma & Takahe. You can try all of them and pick up the one you like the most. 💛
Walking in the countryside 📷
Before starting to walk let me take a shot.
Doing some digital decluttering recently. I removed some apps & services from my daily routine. Next step is concentrating more on (micro)blogging.
A cycling team’s sticker 🚴♂️📷
