
🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 244 (Everest edition) ⛰️
a blog post that details some of the highs and lows I have been experiencing lately in my self-hosting adventures. I have a major challenge ahead - learning #Docker - in order to take advantage of #Ghost x #ActivityPub federation. It's my new Everest 🥲
🔗:
https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-244-everest-edition/
#MySoCalledSudoLife

Haha! Het werkt! #ghost #activitypub
🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 244 (Everest edition) ⛰️
a blog post that details some of the highs and lows I have been experiencing lately in my self-hosting adventures. I have a major challenge ahead - learning #Docker - in order to take advantage of #Ghost x #ActivityPub federation. It's my new Everest 🥲
🔗:
https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-244-everest-edition/
#MySoCalledSudoLife

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Soaring over the sulphur pools~
I am doing a combo of #AuGhost and #AvianAugust, where the ghost bun meets all the beautiful birds of Hawaii.
🐦 DAY 12: Brimstone + 'Io
#MastoArt#FediArt#AvianAugust2025#AuGhost2025 #DigitalArt #birds #ghost
Soaring over the sulphur pools~
I am doing a combo of #AuGhost and #AvianAugust, where the ghost bun meets all the beautiful birds of Hawaii.
🐦 DAY 12: Brimstone + 'Io
#MastoArt#FediArt#AvianAugust2025#AuGhost2025 #DigitalArt #birds #ghost
Haha! Het werkt! #ghost #activitypub
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Few things in life are as joyous as a summer movie night with friends and caramel crisps. I wonder what they're watching!
I am doing a combo of #AuGhost and #AvianAugust, where the ghost bun meets all the beautiful birds of Hawaii.
🐦 DAY 11: Bag + ʻAnianiau
#MastoArt#FediArt#AuGhost2025#AvianAugust2025 #birds #ghost #art
Few things in life are as joyous as a summer movie night with friends and caramel crisps. I wonder what they're watching!
I am doing a combo of #AuGhost and #AvianAugust, where the ghost bun meets all the beautiful birds of Hawaii.
🐦 DAY 11: Bag + ʻAnianiau
#MastoArt#FediArt#AuGhost2025#AvianAugust2025 #birds #ghost #art

Earlier this week Ghost announced a major update. With it, every Ghost publication is now on the Open Social Web.
This is a huge step forward for the Open Social Web and a real testament to how work across the Social Web is benefitting creators and organisations away from Big Tech.
If you want to learn more, check out the changelog: https://ghost.org/changelog/6/
#Ghost#SocialWeb#Fediverse#Publishing#OpenNetwork#Community#Blog#Newsletter#Mastodon
I would get a paid subscription to the @taylorlorenz newsletter -- which correctly pilloried Substack's recent promotion of a Nazi -- if she wasn't using Substack to publish her newsletter.
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-nazi-white-supremacist-blog


People, please don't use #SubStack
Please use #Ghost
https://ghost.org
You can let your site be hosted by Ghost or even better..
..self-host!
Setting up a site is super easy and you can even use membership features like I do here: https://stux.me/membership/
For every platform with a shady CEO there is a self-hosted alternative that is waaay better
#FOSS FTW!
People, please don't use #SubStack
Please use #Ghost
https://ghost.org
You can let your site be hosted by Ghost or even better..
..self-host!
Setting up a site is super easy and you can even use membership features like I do here: https://stux.me/membership/
For every platform with a shady CEO there is a self-hosted alternative that is waaay better
#FOSS FTW!
Hello Fedi friends,
Please stage an intervention. This is a special “my adventures in self-hosting - 🤡 edition” toot.
So I need to learn #Docker in order to move my #Ghost blog there - possibly - as it’s the only way to let it federate (per the official Ghost.org documentation).
If you’ve followed me here for a while, you might have caught a running joke “please don’t tempt me to get a THIRD #VPS”.
This is my mayday, begging you: “please talk me out of getting a third VPS.”
I was happily doing online research wondering if I could install Docker on my #RaspberryPi5. Sure, it’s possible. Good to know.
Then things escalated when I started wondering: “hmmm how much would it cost to get a new VPS for Docker testing purposes?”
I checked out the website of my current VPS provider and noticed that you could get a basic VPS and pick an application that would come pre-installed. Docker is in the list of applications with a thumbs up next to it. Oh and I have a $20 credit after a commission. Awww the temptation!
I’m currently with my extended family in the middle of nowhere, with no WiFi in the house, one bar of 5G in most places (at best) and a laptop that refuses to connect to my phone’s hotspot. I’m typing this on my iPad (which is cooperating, vis-à-vis tethering). It’s my 12th day in this location, with 4 days to go before I return to civilization. I’m easily tempted because I’m going a little batty.
Please please please tell me that it’s better to learn Docker on my Pi 5. It’ll be waiting for me at home in a few days 😅

Did I imagine it or did Ghost's ActivityPub support have a way to migrate followers before the 6.0 release?