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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] 54 points 3 years ago (5 children)

FreshRSS, news and websites fetched your way. You can even create feeds for websites that don't provide one

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Quick question, don't want to highjack the thread. This looks interesting, but I don't understand why I couldn't just install it on my regular laptop running fedora. Why does it need it's own server?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Well you can install it locally and get the web interface via localhost, but if it's a proper server you can access the news from your sources from anywhere and you can also use 3rd party apps in your phone to get a different interface via the API

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Do you have any recommendations for 3rd party apps? I did a quick search but couldn't find any apps built for FreshRSS

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Oh ok thanks. I do like the idea of access from anywhere... I'm guessing a VPN would be needed on the server and phone? Or is this a whole big thing?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Check out tailscale, the best tool ever to access a server without opening ports or doing hard stuff

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or Cloudflare tunnels

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It depends on how secure you want to get with it. You could just host it with any of the hosting providers and have it public - or you could have it behind a vpn on that server

    If you were hosting it at home, you’d likely want to restrict access to behind a vpn. No sense advertising your network is any more interesting than it needs to be

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hey I got FreshRSS self hosted and everything is up and running smooth. Only thing is, for the websites without RSS... how did you get the RSS for those?

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