Yeah. Buying my own domain and migrating my email to it is one of the best things I've ever done. Setting up wireguard into my LAN permanently changed the way I used computers. Looks like it's time to get myself a VPS and just start hosting even more stuff.

Sovereign personal infrastructure is amazing. Highly recommended. Dealing with the government's rules and their politics is obnoxious enough. I'm starting to really lose patience with all of these communities.

Self-hosting based on an external project is still a dependency on Someone Else to keep it up to date, unless you have both the time and skill to take over maintenance of that project.

Radicle provides self-hosting with decentralized mirrors for both added availability and DDoS resistance.

A Tor-hosted mirror provides extra protection against attacks on DNS or your domain name, and some additional DDoS protection.

It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.

there's decentralized git on Nostr:

https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/

Your public key is your sovereign ownership of your project, and with Nostr is no longer bound to any single entity.

I’m using self hosted GitLab; any reason I should check out something else?

(I also mirror projects to public GitLab and to GitHub.)

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