Find me at (my) home (server)

The server I've "lived" at for some time in the Fediverse is currently down. No socket connection (meaning I can't travel to their machine from my home machine over the network I'm on). I thought it was an issue with my phone but then I tried in the browser and in the flagship Mastodon app, to no avail. I think this is my personal reminder that anything I don't directly control, I can't expect to keep up as long as I'd like. I'm not terribly interested in running the behemoth that is Mastodon on my small VPS. I did mention that I was curious about running a proxy from my home server to this VPS to play with things.

Setting up Tailscale took me running one command on each of the devices I wanted to use and logging into their portal. Now I can access my home lab from the Internet easily. This is perhaps the most seamless experience I've had for such a power tool in a while (if ever). The amount of ideas of things I could do now exploded^[1]. This does mean that I have a new interest in getting my own opinionated social networking system^[2] going. I think that if todon.eu comes back up, I'll lock my account, download a backup, purge my posts and turn it into a post-only account from this blog and my newsletter. It's not that I have issues with how todon.eu's team is handling things; they're on a different continent! I'm finding myself needing to return to what I initially wanted so many years ago: a truly autonomous presence on the Web (and beyond it) that is partially reliant on me (and can be delegated when I want). I'll follow up with what I end up running on here but that was the great follow up experience to what even provoked me to cut down on my server size.

It took a bit of searching but I found the status page for todon.eu. It looks like the server was taken down for a migration by the hosting provider. This doesn't change my sentiment above.