ah damn, I didn’t know that… I really like those dropdowns as they shrink the article a bit. ok will have to consider not using them.

FYI when you get the blog by email they are expanded by default.

Have you tried viewing it in an RSS reader? (Ghost blogs you just append with /rss)

yeah i’m here. You mean without the ?tracker part to the URL…?

It’s a Ghost blog and that gets added automatically - I’d rather it wasn’t there but I don’t know how to stop that, sorry.

Showing that they blocked right wing stuff in the past, and now align with the right wing, demonstrates that big tech doesn’t care about sides - they just want money and power.

My non-profit the Rebel Tech Alliance is working on a series of blog posts that will look at self hosting for begginners. If you sign up for the blog you’ll get them when they’re published:

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/

Or our main website is at https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

But really what I’ve got going (if you exclude Transmission) is the simplest stuff. Jellyfin, Calibre and Syncthing are just ‘click and install’ - they are all self contained so they don’t need all that Docker stuff. I suggest just tinkering with them.

Also running Calibre, Syncthing, Transmission and Filen. all on Linux Mint.

I can’t cope with TUI-only OS’s - the command stuff makes no sense to me at all. I’ve learned some of it, and am trying to get Nextcloud running in Docker behind Nginx Proxy Manager, but I can’t work out DDNS yet so… 😂

I was keen on Proxmox or Yunohost, but put off by the fact that they totally replace the OS. I’d be more comfortable with something that runs on the OS, like Docker does.

https://www.gmktec.com/products/nucbox-g3-plus-enhanced-performance-mini-pc-with-intel-n150-processor

This is going well for me - Jellyfin etc

We will get to that in the Big Tech Walkout 2026 programme. This is for people who have no idea about tech, and struggle to know the difference between a search engine and a browser. Imagine them trying to install Linux 😂

Baby steps

Thank you for your help!

We have fixed it - the problem was that I had already set up DNS records so that Tuta could send emails using our website domain. This was blocking the proper set up of mailgun/transactional emails.

So we worked out how to set up emails for the business separately using the SMPT email server of our web hosting provider - et voila! Email set up works!

Hi there, fair enough that’s true for now, but we tried to future proof it by putting Freemium based on what they say here

https://simplex.chat/faq/#how-are-you-funded

“What will be the business model? We are focusing on product-market fit, and as such the business model is still a work in progress. However, the app will have a freemium model with extra features or capabilities for paid users (taking into consideration a potential formula like 5% paying $5/month is $3/user/year - ~90% gross profit margin).”

This is pretty good value https://www.gmktec.com/products/nucbox-g3-plus-enhanced-performance-mini-pc-with-intel-n150-processor

I bought one for self hosting and flashed it with Linux.

Threaten them with having to communicate with you using email - they’ll install Signal 😂

If I install ddclient on my mini-pc is that what you mean by having a server with ddclient?

My Asus router is not shown in their docs as supported - does that matter?

Also - can I just keep using my current domain name registrar, and not use Cloudflare?

Big tech lobbying is behind all this

That doesn’t seem to be appropriate for a specific domain. Unless I’m reading it wrong.

We need to expose the Ghost blog on a specific subdomain of the domain we own ( blog.ourdomain.org )

doesn’t Tailscale Funnel assign a funky domain name rather than let you use your own?

Hi, I’m using Docker - one container for Ghost and one for Nginx Proxy Manager.

I’ve decided to go with DDNS but am having trouble choosing a reliable free provider. I’ve seen Dynu.com recommended but that is not available in the dropdown list of servers in my router’s section on DDNS. Is that relevant?

Or would I just ignore the router settings and set it up some other way?

Wouldn’t that be just for me - in my Tailnet - rather than to the general public?

You can use Tailscale to access your stuff from outside the house.

There’s also a self hosted open source alternative but I’ve forgotten what it’s called.

yeah fair play - I’ll go that route. Do you happen to know any content creators who explain stuff well in this area?

(Context - our self-hosting is part of a wider project to make self-hosting easier, on the cheap, for normies)

Does anyone know of a short course I could do/attend that teaches the basics of this networking stuff?

I was going to use Cloudflare to sort this, but I’m uncomfortable how big they are getting / lack of competition in that part of the market. So we looked at Pangolin as an alternative, but it’s a faff to self host.

Hence why we’re back at exposing it straight out the back of Nginx Proxy Manager.