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  "textContent": "The server I've \"lived\" at for some time in the Fediverse is currently down. No socket connection (meaning I can't\ntravel to their machine from my home machine over the network I'm on). I thought it was an issue with my phone but then\nI tried in the browser and in the flagship Mastodon app, to no avail. I think this is my personal reminder that anything\nI don't directly control, I can't expect to keep up as long as I'd like. I'm not terribly interested in running the\nbehemoth that is Mastodon on my small VPS. I did mention that I was curious about running a proxy from my home\nserver to this VPS to play with things.\n\nSetting up Tailscale took me running one command on each of the devices I wanted to use and logging into their portal.\nNow I can access my home lab from the Internet easily. This is perhaps _the most seamless_ experience I've had for such\na power tool in a while (if ever). The amount of ideas of things I could do now exploded. This does mean that I have\na new interest in getting my own opinionated social networking system going. I think that if todon.eu comes back up,\nI'll lock my account, download a backup, purge my posts and turn it into a post-only account from this blog and my\nnewsletter. It's not that I have issues with how todon.eu's team is handling things; they're on a different continent!\nI'm finding myself needing to return to what I initially wanted so many years ago: a truly autonomous presence on the\nWeb (and beyond it) that is partially reliant on me (and can be delegated when I want). I'll follow up with what I end\nup running on here but that was the great follow up experience to what even provoked me to [cut down on my server\nsize][1].\n\n---\n\nIt took a bit of searching but [I found the status page for todon.eu][2]. It looks like the server was taken down for a\nmigration by the hosting provider. This doesn't change my sentiment above.\n\n[1]: /essays/2024/hard-reset\n[2]: https://status.todon.eu/",
  "title": "Find me at (my) home (server)"
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