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   Mx. Aria Stewart (aredridel@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:09 JST Mx. Aria Stewart

   Has anyone done any research into peer-to-peer communication offloading to servers that users control?

   Where a or the primary interaction is on mobile devices, but the network connectivity overhead is mostly on stable, desktop or server systems?

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     Nire Bryce (nirebryce@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:04 JST Nire Bryce

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     @irenes @aredridel (to be clear, it is LITERALLY just a dashboard for scripts that install and configure prebuilt docker-and-reverse-DNS-fully-configured containers. But it's way easier than learning docker/docker-compose, and a good way to learn good docker/compose by example once you're making changes or submitting new packages)

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     Nire Bryce (nirebryce@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:05 JST Nire Bryce

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     @irenes @aredridel but my local instance was literally just clone repo to raspi or whatever, launch cli, do auth, and that's my selfhost instance that only my tailnet can access

     and my remote instance is a hetzner arm box that I did the same on, but has things exposed to the open web there

     list of prebuilt apps: https://www.runtipi.io/docs/apps-available

     (WARN: some lack auth and are unsafe to run exposed)

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Nire Bryce (nirebryce@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:06 JST Nire Bryce

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     @irenes @aredridel there's low code selfhosting stuff like runtipi now, but you have to write your own 'packages' (docker containers and rdns configs) if you want to add things not in the repo so they're compatible with the dashboard + etc

     it does not have p2p comms apps on it yet

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:07 JST Irenes (many)

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     @aredridel a lot of existing work around making self-hosting easier provides people with little "appliance" disk images, but that's not ideal because it punts on software updates and modifications that people may want to make over time

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:07 JST Irenes (many)

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     @aredridel also because it means if you want more than one program, you wind up with more physical devices

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:08 JST Irenes (many)

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     @aredridel not that we're aware of. we think it's an important topic and we have given it some thought.

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 16:22:08 JST Irenes (many)

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     @aredridel we think it's primarily a problem with making self-hosting more usable in terms of UX, documentation, maintainability, etc, rather than a technical architecture challenge