I cannot reply to everyone, but genuinely thank you all so much for the help. I’ll be going with a simplistic zola setup suggested by one of the commentors. I barely expected a handful, let alone all these comments. It really means a lot, especially to a noob who felt like this was a really dumb question.

Thank you for the advice. Honestly, I’m a young 20 something that just wants to output creative stuff for people to read and enjoy. None of this really popped in my head, so thanks.

I still want to host my own site for it though, but I will consider the self publishing angle as well. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks, but I decided to go for a 1 liter PC with a 9th gen i7 instead. I can't believe this post is 4 months old lol.

Honestly all I want is a Steam Deck Mini. Fuck bigger and more powerful, I want a small indie/AA game machine that’s easier to carry around and use as a handheld outside of the house. The Steam Deck has been primarily a bed machine for me.

Awesome! Now I go back to waiting for the 24TB Ironwolf drives to drop.

Whoa, that’s sexy. What dashboard is that?

That’s a pretty good sign, I’m hoping I can make it work out. The only con so far is the lack of iOS support as of now and questionable smart/android TV support.

I’d actually prefer full CLI/TUI for management, but it’s interesting to see how many different alternatives there are. I only knew about Tailscale going into this.

This seems like a good middleground, I might use it if my stubborn attempt to use Netbird doesn’t work. Thanks!

They have an Android client, and the iOS client is slated to drop Q3 of this year.

Hm, I’ll consider Headscale.

It was mainly the search, it was a ghost town for Masto content and accounts. Maye that’s still a WIP, but finding accounts I want to doesn’t seem easy.

I really do feel that stuff like this pointlessly fragments the Fediverse. The magic is that Kbin and Lemmy can interact with no strings attached, doesn’t it make more sense to just have a shared pool of communities irregardless of where they were created? Lemmy and Kbin posts just feed into eachother, I’ve used both platforms. I think it’s pretty beautiful, as someone who’s mostly grown up with the centralized, proprietary web.

I also wish that there was a platform agnostic term for communities, it’d make things a lot easier if they shared a terminology instead of making things more confusing. Though maybe I’m the only one who cares about that.

I stated why in the post.

This is really an option on Calckey??? I did not expect this use case to be accounted for, let alone supported.

Ah, my bad. I never really looked into it but I kept hearing similar stories, especially when the Meta leak happened.

I honestly forgot about this, there’s also that Blue Sky thing I heard people talk about. I’m very excited to give this a go now.

Holy cow, that’s sweet! I’ll definitely give it a try then.

Regardless of the how, I think it’s really cool that the top instance isn’t run by the devs. Really shows off the power and appeal of decentralized services.

Thank you! The only thing I’d want to host is Owncast upon reflection, which I probably won’t be doing until I have a better setup than I do now.

Maybe, but I doubt enough instances are gonna go follow the beehaw route for that to take off. The only issue is that Beehaw had a ton of really big general communities that were used by a lot of people on other instances.