Hey y’all,
So I keep having this intrusive though that I SO BADLY want to get my anti slop, anti corporate brainwash friends off of fb and start our own social area (with blow and hookers. Actually forget the blow).
My issues: most of them aren’t tech savvy and my setup would have to be solid with little issues. I never post on fb but I basically would Make 1 post inviting everyone to it.
I have a couple synology nas setups. Neither are open to the internet. I have some spare computers as well that could run the server fine.
I know I could potentially just make a server from one of the public instances of matrix but I don’t trust that and it’d be a nightmare if that one went down or something and we had to move again.
Realistically I’d probably get like 10 people to join me. Just a place for local community to hang out and share events etc.
I keep getting stuck on how exactly to go about it. Like I think I’d need tailscale and docker (still dont get what docker really is). I have used tailscale briefly on mobile and it seems to work. But idk. I would also be fine paying a modest sum a year for some pro to host it if that is smarter…
That’s a real win. A private family chat that never touches a public server is the part a lot of people give up on. I feel you on the Android side too. I ran AdGuard Home as DNS for my tailnet and chased a lot of phone issues back to Tailscale. The DNS override settings were finicky, and it never played nice with Android’s always-on VPN, so I ended up just starting the client by hand after every phone reboot. That’s a big reason the friends on my Matrix server don’t touch Tailscale at all and go through a VPS instead. If you want to chase the battery question, checking the phone’s battery stats for a few days would tell you whether Tailscale is really the culprit. And I relate to the “until it works, beyond the point of sanity” part more than I’d like to admit.