@FUCKINGWHOCARESDUDE i'm thinking and I might just use a vps after all - my only hang up about it is because I'm in a country that is leaning towards being authoritarian (the UK) I was worried that any VPS provider I have would give in if the authorities wanted to get my information from them.
I won't be hosting anything morally questionable on the instance at all, but who knows, in a country like this, saying you disagree with how the prime minister does things may be illegal soon or some shit idk. Scary
Question for anyone who has an instance of their own or has had experience making one: What would you say is the "hardest part"?
I was thinking making sure emails are sent and don't just go straight into spam is probably one of them. Also, do I need an S3 bucket to handle media etc or is there a way I can host it all locally?
I'm thinking of hosting my own instance at some point in the future and I wondered how I go about setting an environment up. (I feel like I should say this if it's not already obvious- I would be doing it entirely from scratch with no previous work in messing with any self hosted instance of anything at all) - do I have a system running Proxmox or something similar and then have the instance in that?
It's all quite new to me admittedly, and aiming to do some of this myself is probably something I hope to work towards...
I like being a music nerd and talking about my hobbies which are mostly just anime, and trying to learn more things about programming. I've always been interested in it but never really been able to retain things for a while and my motivation is iffy at best. I have been a somewhat inconsistent user of the fediverse for a good few years now, since 2020 I believe (god, my first account was mastodon lol).
For hobbies I mostly look at and research sounds and samples in music, and for video game music. I document some of my findings on a fairly large spreadsheet I own and manage, which has a lot of contributors gathered over the several years its been going on. It's a pretty interesting hobby but it does make for some annoyance when I hear a particular song and just immediately know what sounds it uses. (This used to happen a lot)
I have also recently been trying to experiment with making music myself, my own original music, which right now isn't really going too far but I want to keep sticking with it.
Aside from this, I have previously been involved in the YouTube channel SiIvaGunner although I have taken a break from this for a long time as I felt I've not been stable enough to revisit it for quite a while.
I do have autism and that makes social communication quite hard for me some times. I may not know social boundaries or know when I am being annoying or if I say or do something people don't like. If I do this, please let me know! It helps. I want to try to be as approachable as I can, as I don't interact with lots of people an awful lot and don't really have a social life IRL so I get that from the internet mostly. I hope we can all get along here and have some nice interactions on fedi :>