I just posted a message on #YunoHost's support forum and noticed this label next to my name: "Honorary muse" – who did this, LOL? 😳​

Thank you @yunohost I'm honored 🥰​❤️​

Madblog MarkDown static site builder on YunoHost wishlist

@selfhosted

UPDATE on Madblog, static blog creation platform: I suggested it as an app into the @yunohost app catalog wish list, and it's up.

To explain better: the yunohost "app store" has the catalog, which contains already installable apps while wishlist is where community suggests apps they would like to be added in the catalog; they must be voted. But being there is not a warranty of the apps to appear on the catalog, it's a shared community desire.

For me it has been an unsuccessful effort, to configure @fabio 's madblog in my own hosting. But who cares, I have wanted to suggest it to yuno host curator anyways.

#madblog #selfhosting #wishlist #yunohost

Successfully migrated our union's YNH server from a VM to another, by reinstalling backups made on the old server. We do have backups, they're valid, and we migrated. Thanks @yunohost and @borgbackup :-)

#Yunohost #selfhosted

Just a regular morning, upgrading my #YunoHost system packages in Terminal via #tmux 🤗​

(thanks again @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks - I'll stop tagging you now, I promise, but I'm just so grateful for your advice)

Good morning Fedi friends!

A routine reminder that I've been running a series of #blog posts - "a newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost" - and so far I've published 5 articles:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

Every week I receive messages from people mentioning how my guide helped them embark on their self-hosting journey. This makes me SO HAPPY, thank you!

I wonder if you have requests for future articles? Or do you think the series is now complete?

Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

@selfhosted

Hello, I followed the "selfhosted" instance on LemmyWorld in order to be able to talk about my experiences having them in order, without confusing criteria into Fediverse. Hoping they can be useful to others.

Current setup: Hostinger vps kvm2 plan, Debian12, YunoHost, Hostinger's docker manager installed.

Personal background: blind since birth, (I don't see), I'm mostly a computer power-user, worked and studied with ms-dos since 1989 until late 90s. Basic GNU/Linux knowledge in 2002, then interrupted in 2004.

I don't care talking about disability when discussing unrelated topics but it's necessary in this case as my needs are quite different from others.

So, I've been scared by self-hosting and have had shared hosting web sites until now. Until @_elena started self hosting her digital echosystem from scratch using YunoHost.

Due to lack of drivers I stopped with Linux on my private machine, drivers for the Braille display I had, and then the uneffective (at least for my need) screen reader capabilities on Linux's GUI based distros.

Finally in January 2026 I jumped in the dark after reading Elena Rossini's blog about YunoHost and having explored their demo pages. At the worst, I'll cancel the contract...

In the end I've managed to run WriteFreely, WordPress, CastoPod and GoToSocial, just by YunoHost; but if someone says terminal knowledge is not needed, this is a complete lie.

Where a system (such as YunoHost) can do the dirty work configuring postfix and nginx, I'll support it but it has its disadvantages: not every app can be installed through it.

For me it's very difficult to create and look after a config file on my own, it's frustrating for a sighted to miss a punctuation sign, an apostrophe, an indent. Let alone for me! A single space skipped, can crash a system.

A lie even saying that AI completely helps. It does solve some small, simple, immediate tasks but it has some mistakes as well. The so-called allucinations which create a real mess if you can rely on no personal skill.

Such as "sudo yunohost tools cert-install", or similar. AI wrote "cert-install" while the real command is "cert install"! A power user can get rid of it and correct, a beginner with no command-line knowledge, just copies, pastes, and gets scared.

My late attempt has been Madblog, a static markdown-based blogging platform with Fediverse activitypub in it, so I learned what Docker is and how it basically works. But I gave up, due to several timeouts and activitypub slow-downs. I think I'm going to use WordPress for blogging then. In case of comments it'll be more intuitive for non-fediverse folks.

Hopefully share others' experiences as well!

#ActivityPub #blind #fediverse #introduction #selfhost #selfhosting #WordPress #YunoHost

If you plan to run your own #mastodon #selfhosting instance like I did a week ago, here is one interesting data I’ve discovered.

My new, single-user instance, with 70/250 contacts, receiving around 1200 posts per day, generated in one week some 16GB of media cache.

If you are on a small 40GB VPS server like me, you should limit that cache to only 2/3 days, or you will be out of storage in two weeks.

Also, clear that cache before you do a #yunohost backup or VPS snapshot.