I’ve been self hosting for 2 or 3 years and haven’t been hacked, though I fully expect it to happen eventually(especially if I start posting my blog in places). I’d suggest self hosting a VPN to get into your home network and not making your apps accessible via the internet unless 100% necessary. I also use docker containers to minimize the apps access to my full system. Best of luck!

I’m not aware of a new interface. Did it just change or something?

I use the Nextcloud News app. It’s not as fully featured as others, but it does the job for me. Just requires a lot of setup and has a lot of extra stuff with it if you don’t want to actually use all the Nextcloud features.

Learn docker. That should probably be #1. That will open up a world of self hosting options.

That depends. How new are you? What do you already know?

You might check out this thread, especially that first post about the open letter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33749757

I homelab to study and practice, and I switched around 1.19. It’s been very smooth for me. Literally just had to change the docker image I was using.

Not sure about the rest of those, but Obsidian isn’t OS either.

Oh totally. I’ve actually, off and on, been going back and reading some lower reading level books that I missed as a kid. Loved A Series Of Unfortunate Events and The Spook’s Apprentice.

After all, I love The Black Cauldron.

I’ve never read these, but it sounds like I should.

Has there been a problem with bad actors on this server yet? I certainly haven’t noticed any.

I do think that the open sign up could become a problem in regard to bots. That being said, they could just as easily open their own instance.