I tried to compare some backup solutions a while back: https://hedgedoc.ptman.name/kket4uo9RLiJRnOhkCzvWw#
Forget about docker. Run caddy or some similar webserver that is a single file next to the assets to serve.
How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.
I would also welcome decent micropayments (maybe digieuro?), so that you wouldn't need to subscribe, but could pay 0.045€ for something without it being unfeasible because of fixed transaction costs.
My point exactly. Why do we get ads on something we pay for with money?
Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn't run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn't running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.
I can only approve of people paying for services they use. It isn't free to run. But there are several things to consider:
Another surge on mastodon? Countries, cities, public organisations should put up their own mastodon like EU, BBC and Germany have.
zram or a cloud instance with more ram https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Riot games forced them to change the name.
Thanks to sliding sync this is very snappy compared to old element.
Element X is built on the rust SDK which should support multiple accounts. https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/discussions/1832
https://publiccode.eu/en/