pippo30_16
Hi fediverse, I was looking on self-hosting some weeks ago (by opening a gotosocial or mastodon instance) and then dropping out the idea after knowing I need
1° a Domain name
2° a static IP address or a DDNS Provider
That's why a VPS it's more efficient, because you need to pay providers in both ways
The problem for self-hosting is the INTERNET and its "STAR" Network Topology, good for long distances but stupid if you wanna connect just to the building in front of yours
Mar 21 at 7:57pmWeb
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I've been thinking about a WLAN for every group/network by using a Software Access Point
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Software_access_point
So it can uses arleady existing wireless devices and networks, and every user can localhost on it by his linux device

-the network don't need to be always running, less than a minute every hour could be more than enough

-wearable wireless devices can make the network more flexible
I'm not talking about Linux-phones but something cheaper like linux-smartwatch or even earplugs, everything that's wireless and easy to hack

When back home you only need to wait for it to run the WLAN again for all your home desktop devices to be SYNC, and even post something that someone else will read tomorrow or the day after

Software access point - ArchWiki