Hey y’all,

So I keep having this intrusive though that I SO BADLY want to get my anti slop, anti corporate brainwash friends off of fb and start our own social area (with blow and hookers. Actually forget the blow).

My issues: most of them aren’t tech savvy and my setup would have to be solid with little issues. I never post on fb but I basically would Make 1 post inviting everyone to it.

I have a couple synology nas setups. Neither are open to the internet. I have some spare computers as well that could run the server fine.

I know I could potentially just make a server from one of the public instances of matrix but I don’t trust that and it’d be a nightmare if that one went down or something and we had to move again.

Realistically I’d probably get like 10 people to join me. Just a place for local community to hang out and share events etc.

I keep getting stuck on how exactly to go about it. Like I think I’d need tailscale and docker (still dont get what docker really is). I have used tailscale briefly on mobile and it seems to work. But idk. I would also be fine paying a modest sum a year for some pro to host it if that is smarter…

  • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I’ve set it up with docker as a service on a PC in my home and a rented virtual private server which the domain points to, which again routes the traffic to said pc using the static IP from Tailscale.

    The rented server runs caddy which makes the routing more or less look like domain.tld { reverse_proxy <<pc_tailscale_ip>> }

    Edit: The Matrix Server is the one thing I have not set up with docker, does not really matter for the setup