It makes no sense. lemmy is a forum + federation. Removing the federated side, why bother with using lemmy or similar software? its like wanting a car to use to solely generate heat with the exhaust. Theres far better options for that

do you mean basically any forum not based on federation? like 99% of other communities?

u mad bro

4.4k in one year. woops

are you sharing a server solely to play with friends?

You could consider using something like zerotier to create a private network

Stealing an icon already designated for something else? As is tradition

Looks more like you posted a garbage source?

edit - for example. Do you consider Fox News to report a balanced view? Or GBNews? Zerohedge?

I havent used kodi in a long time, since swapping to jellyfin. I personally found kodi would always buffer sometimes, far more than it should ever need to. With jellyfin, same server, no buffer

Happy to be corrected but I think code server doesn’t use the exact vscode build from microsoft

https://coder.com/docs/code-server/FAQ#why-cant-code-server-use-microsofts-extension-marketplace

And I think the trackers you are (rightly) concerned about aren’t in code server but they have their own equivalent. You can disable the telemetry though

https://coder.com/docs/code-server/FAQ#how-do-i-disable-telemetry

Infisical?

https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

Wasnt kbin development abandoned?

Personally, literally some postit notes for my own selfhosted projects

Ive not shared mine to the point anyone can arbitrarily get media. They have to ask. And I can always say “Oh its not available on my sources” or whatever

Unfortunately not in this example. It has the compose to spin up masto, and the variables to set to tell it where redis etc is

You will need to review all the required variables and configure as you require. But basically, yeah

EDIT - NO

its not just grab and run. From the docs,

This container requires separate postgres and redis instances to run.

If youre looking for a sample docker-compose,

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-mastodon/

a lot of apps support key word blocking

Reddit began in a similar way - being very tech focused until it started to become much more mainstream.

Block instances which have nothing you want (foreign languages, for me)

Block communities spamming gaza / war / techbro

I like to browse new across all instances, and block rather than only view subscriptions

I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions.

Maybe the team has good intentions. Zuck the Fuck certainly doesn’t

Some things, or points, to consider.

1. Do you want whatever you’re hosting to be internet accessible? Or local network only? As it being able to access from anywhere
2. If its something you want to be able to use full time, youll eventually want a dedicated machine. I have an *arr stack etc, which I share with a private group. Eventually downtime was an actual consideration and interrupted my normal usage of my main machine. I picked up a secondhand elitedesk mini Pc for £150 and its doing really well.
3. Potentially make use of tools like Zerotier for private networking (others hopefully will chime in with alternatives, but I have had good success with zerotier.
4. How do you want to host it, and are you willing to learn? Get a bit of knowledge on docker or podman but this is hardmode as most examples will be docker specific. Using containers will make things simpler. The most complicated part IMO is networking but even then its more docker networking stuff than general TCP/IP - (like you mentioned in your post)
5. OS - you mentioned using Linux? I personally use Ubuntu just out of defaulting to what i’ve previously used. But Im currently using Manjaro on my non host PC, which I am liking
6. Keep things secure - the more you expose to the internet, the more risk. Keep exposure as small as possible, use letsencrypt or alternatives for anything you want to access over the internet etc

good luck have fun!