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…
Matrix isn’t trivial to host, at least with the official software, and I probably wouldn’t suggest to get into the topic with a “productive” service that’s a bit on the higher level to selfhost.
There’s some providers offering Matrix as a service, but they don’t seem cheap on my quick research.
There’s plenty it collectives offering Matrix for free and honestly them going down is not much more likely than you messing something up. If you don’t trust the smaller ones, you can still simply join matrix.org, which will probably last as long as Matrix is around.
I think with your anti slop, anti corporate friends I’d go for some leftist hobby nerd collective, check out this list: https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers