Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!

I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).

I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.

I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.

Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.

What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.

I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!

So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.

This is a really magical, special place.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Good morning and happy Monday Fedi friends! 🌞​

I found a solution to my #Sharkey installation issues!!! (Something as simple as setting the access permission to "visitors", duh). Thank you kind #YunoHost Forum member for setting me on the right path. The 7th time was the charm 🙃​

I'm SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! #Sharkey AKA my favorite Fediverse social software, here we goooooooo

P.S.: in case you're wondering, I will be keeping my #Mastodon account as my main and this #GoToSocial account to share my #selfhosting adventures. Sharkey will be a much smaller profile, private, to just interact with friends and contacts. My little quiet corner of the Fediverse (my two current accounts can get so noisy sometimes, with 100+ daily mentions on Mastodon alone). I'm setting up a fun little zen garden with Sharkey 💁‍♀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning and happy Monday Fedi friends! 🌞​

I found a solution to my #Sharkey installation issues!!! (Something as simple as setting the access permission to "visitors", duh). Thank you kind #YunoHost Forum member for setting me on the right path. The 7th time was the charm 🙃​

I'm SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! #Sharkey AKA my favorite Fediverse social software, here we goooooooo

P.S.: in case you're wondering, I will be keeping my #Mastodon account as my main and this #GoToSocial account to share my #selfhosting adventures. Sharkey will be a much smaller profile, private, to just interact with friends and contacts. My little quiet corner of the Fediverse (my two current accounts can get so noisy sometimes, with 100+ daily mentions on Mastodon alone). I'm setting up a fun little zen garden with Sharkey 💁‍♀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm running a poll on my Mastodon account, asking people to vote for the software I should feature in my #selfhosting for newbies / #YunoHost step-by-step installation guide:

🔗​: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

I put down as options #GoToSocial, #Mastodon, #Sharkey and #NextCloud.

Less than an hour in, over 100 people have already voted.

No spoilers here (and vote if you can) but my heart aches a little for the fact Sharkey didn't get much love. It's the fedi software I'm most tempted to install because I LOVE its UX/UI... it's just that I have enough ActivityPub profiles as it is 🤪​

It totally makes sense to see what's the popular choice for now and I'd be thrilled to feature it in my guide, as it has become absolutely essential to me.

Still, my face right now as I think about Sharkey: 🥲

Wishing you all a lovely day!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm running a poll on my Mastodon account, asking people to vote for the software I should feature in my #selfhosting for newbies / #YunoHost step-by-step installation guide:

🔗​: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

I put down as options #GoToSocial, #Mastodon, #Sharkey and #NextCloud.

Less than an hour in, over 100 people have already voted.

No spoilers here (and vote if you can) but my heart aches a little for the fact Sharkey didn't get much love. It's the fedi software I'm most tempted to install because I LOVE its UX/UI... it's just that I have enough ActivityPub profiles as it is 🤪​

It totally makes sense to see what's the popular choice for now and I'd be thrilled to feature it in my guide, as it has become absolutely essential to me.

Still, my face right now as I think about Sharkey: 🥲

Wishing you all a lovely day!

#MySoCalledSudoLife