mirdaki

Hey y'all, I know getting a setup that feels "right" can be a process. We all have different goals, tech preferences, etc.

I wanted to a share my blog post walking through how I finally built a setup that I can just be happy with and use. It goes over my goals, requirements, tech choices, layout, and some specific problems I've resolved.

Where I've landed of course isn't where everyone else will, but I hope it can serve as a good reference. I’ve really benefited from the content and software folks have freely shared, and hope I can continue that and help others.

Very cool to see some thorough, but "beginner" friendly documentation. The [SelfHosted](https://selfhosted.show/) podcast is great, but it's hard to search back through.

A couple points I'd like to see more on:

1. WireGuard on a VPS seems like a great option for services you want to access externally from your network. If I'm on my network, I'd like to access the services using the same method as externally (e.g. going to nextcloud.example.com) without having all my requests go through the VPS. Any recommendations for doing that (I imagine some local DNS redirecting would be enough, but I'm not sure)?

2. If someone had the budget and space to do so, would running two separate boxes, one for data storage and one for services make sense (i.e. if you could get a 2.5 or 10 Gb connection between them, would their be enough of a perf impact to make it a bad idea)? I like the idea of separating the two (can keep just the data server on UPS, focus on stability with your data, make it less dangerous to play around with the service box, etc), but not sure if it's worth the headache.

Thank you for the response!

> I would differentiate between "cancel culture", where folks gang up and react disproportionately to a misdeed - versus a smear campaign where people try to weaponise the moderation system by spreading malicious reputation (e.g. your ESB example).

Good distinction!

> The room for discussing this is #matrix-reputation:matrix.org (although public convo is a bit sporadic; this should change as we spin up more experiments in the coming weeks/months however).

Great, I've joined!

I'm very excited to see this discussed! Even without pressure from government entities, I would certainly want some sort of way to prevent something like child abuse content from being uploaded to my server, so I'd love for a system like this to work well.

1. Would the system discussed have anyway to diminish "cancel culture" like attacks? For instance, if a user were to say something egregious like "Empire Strikes Back is bad", what is preventing especially enthusiastic fans from labeling them with having uploaded child abuse content. Presumably that would be a good way to get that user banned from most popular servers. Is there a way to "appeal" this is the moderator or server host is a bad actor? Is having a good enough reputation before an incident like that enough to not be blocked everywhere? 2. Is there a way we could test this outside of Matrix? It seems useful to social platforms, particularly other decentralized ones. If it could be done in a platform independent way, it could be a nice open source collaboration (granted, how people interact on different platforms might be enough to make that impossible to generalize effectively). I also ask, because this sort of thing is really dependent on how people interact, so "play testing" it might be beneficial to getting a more realistic design going early on. Even doing something low-tech might find some issues that should be addressed.

Is there a room discussing this in particular? I'd be interested in participating.