Yeah, I’m figuring that I have a lot of holes in my knowledge. I’m trying to fill them, but unfortunately its a bumpy road. And while I didn’t think I could keep my domain ‘secret’, I also am concerned about broadcasting it too much, making it more noticeable. I mainly want to use it for private services, so I’m not sure if using it in a more public forum would increase the likelihood of threats.

My main thinking is that I don’t know what I’m doing, and I don’t want to unnecessarily open myself up to threats.

As an example, many people will post their personal information on social media. They think ‘why not? What harm can it do when I talk about my favorite teacher, or the street I grew up on, or my first date? What harm can that do?’ (Not realizing these are common answers to security questions) or ‘Why not talk about my big vacation coming up?’ (Not realizing they’re letting thieves know when their house is going to be vacant) People reveal information about themselves all the time online without a second thought because they can’t personally see the danger. I can’t personally see a problem with using my domain in this way, but I would prefer to check with those more experienced than me before I learn the hard way that I made a bad choice.

I hope that makes sense, and I appreciate any expertise you offer.

So you’re suggesting that I not set this up on the same VPS I have my nextcloud instance on, then? That makes sense. Would I basically need two completely different VPS services if I wanted to do this? One for my private services, and one for my communication services?

Yeah, I have done research on all of that before, but so far, I’ve just stuck with tailscale as a safe way to traffic my data. I’m going to have to do more research on each of these items again and figure them out. Any good resources you know of?

That’s a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

This is the battle I’m dealing with, too.

Are you very familiar with xmpp or jmp.chat? Would I gain any benefit in using jmp.chat by having my own xmpp server? With my own xmpp server, I own my account, but I don’t know if I can then connect that in any meaningful way to jmp.

This is exactly what I’m trying to figure out. I’m trying to subscribe to some communities on mander.xyz but am having a lot of troubles because it’s on a different instance. I would love further insight into this.

I love it! My wife and I play it all the time. We were having a hard time with Xbox login on the deck, but once you get past that annoyance, its great. I’m fine with the graphics (yes, I notice some abberations) but I’m not one who makes a major fuss about that. Game content is way more important to me than graphics. But, it’s not that the graphics are bad, I just think that those who are really sensitive to this might be frustrated. It will kill your battery, though! I basically just play with my steamdeck plugged in.

Very nice? Can you give us a build breakdown, material list, or helpful pointers? This definitely looks like something I would want to build.