I just tell them I run a private cloud. It’s so much easier because they understand in general “cloud equals internet”

I use Raccoon.

It’s pretty good.

There’s a lot of complexity to the settings, and it’s not exactly intuitive to find which section does what, so there was a lot of trial and error getting it set up.

But now that I have it set up, it works for me perfectly. It’s not quite where Reddit is Fun was, but it’s close enough.

The one thing that I wish could be added would be some sort of like system where posts or entire communities could be labeled with a category and that you could block or follow those categories.

Technology, music, politics, memes, NSFW, like each and every single broad topic could be a category, and then the magazines would align themselves to that accordingly.

I, for one, get all of my political news from other sources. I do not need it from Lemmy, and so I would love it if I could block Lemme’s political sections in a fell swoop.

Even though I have blocked dozens of political magazines and politics bots and posters, and bammed several key words, I still get political memes that pop up and political discussions that pop up, and I wish I could just blanket ban all of them.

Yeah, the more recent versions basically have a form of Docker as part of its setup.

I believe it’s now running on Debian instead of free BSD, which probably simplified the containers set up.

I’m running a TrueNAS server on bare metal with a handful of hard drives. I have virtualized it in the past, but meh, I’m also using TrueNAS’s internal features to host a jellyfin server and a couple of other easy to deploy containers.

Another thing to check is the file path. Most systems abide by a 255 character limit and that limit can be crossed by parent folders having too many words in them.

Its fine.

Best advice I can give you is start where you are with what you have.

What you need will become apparent as you do.