Decentralisation

As many other people who run their own websites (and often other web infrastructure), I'm interested in keeping the internet diverse and decentralised.

Check out my bookmarks!

Decentralised/self-hosted/privacy-first online services

I'm running self-hosted online services. They are public, you can use them too :)

• Invidious, an alternate YouTube frontend

• SearX, a meta-search engine

• LibreY, another meta-search engine

• Libreddit, alternative Reddit frontend

I also recommend the following services for private use:

• NextCloud

• Matrix

some random thoughts on search - registry-based search engine manifesto

Notes on self-hosting, suggested software

1. Monitor the metrics of every service you've hosting (Prometheus)
2. Visualise your metrics (Grafana)
3. Ping everything from time to time (Blackbox exporter)
4. Setup notifications when a service goes down
5. Automate everything from the start, you won't regret it
6. As your infrastructure (and knowledge) grows, you will eventually need infrastructure as code
   • Or even better, just use NixOs