I never got into mastodon because I couldn’t connect multiple instances. I like this a lot about Lemmy so far (just here for a few minutes though).

Reading about the fediverse got me thinking. What other use cases could you think of? Maybe outside social media?

Would a fediverse password manager be more or less secure than some company owned pm?

How about “clones” of other social media like FB and Insta, TikTok?

What about a blogging community like Medium?

Other ideas?

  • Vendetta9076
    2·
    2 years ago

    On the topic of a PM, its probably best to self host one. Any multi user PM, regardless of company or community backed, will become a target once its big enough. Vaultwarden takes an hour at most from scratch to host on a raspi. I highly reccomend it as a first time project :)

    • gredo@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Does Vaultwarden do their own reverse-proxying, routing etc like e.g. Plex? I use my PM on my mobile all the time from everywhere and last time I tried setting up DynDNS or so it really didn’t work. Maybe I need to invest more time.

      • Vendetta9076
        2·
        2 years ago

        Plex doesnt techincally do reverse proxy but I understand what you mean. Vaultwarden doesnt but its rather easy to set up. I haven’t used DynDNS but I have mine running through traefik on my truenas scale machine. Grab a cheap domain, learn the minimum amount of networking and youre good to go. If you need any help you can pm me :). Scale makes the SSL cert delivery very easy but its not hard to do outside of scale either. Ive done it through both a Scale Box and just basic ass ubuntu server, so piOS should be easy as well given that you can run docker on it.

        • gredo@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 years ago

          I know traefik, need to check out the scale machine though. How can I access it though if I don’t have a static IP and no DNS? I might use my routers VPN, but that wouldn’t work for my non-technical wife.

          • Vendetta9076
            1·
            2 years ago

            Ive set a static IP manually in my router.

            I quite like truenas Scale, but it wont work for everyone. I have my whole *arr stack hosted on it and vaultwarden was just something I learned I could do lol.

            • gredo@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              2 years ago

              Sadly my provider won’t let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?

                • gredo@lemmy.worldOP
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Yeah, in Germany if you don’t have Internet over cable you get a flexible IP. Not sure how it is with ftth which we will get in a few weeks.

                  • Vendetta9076
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    Wait do you not have a router? Or do you mean its satalite internet.

            • gredo@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              2 years ago

              Sadly my provider won’t let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?