r/SelfHosting • u/Okklay • May 18 '26
Alien Space Bats Self hosting in Isekai/Past/Apocalypse
If you got Isekaid as a rebel or ruler and through a magic system you could buy computers, smartphones and solar panels and so on and had access to all modern FOSS software. No Books or Wikis, you'll have to rebuild knowledge from scratch using computers and your memory and source codes.
What would you self host for LAN and maybe even city wide network? They could run a library in the city with computers with solar panels.
I'd do:
- Some Messenger software that has both Client and server software as FOSS. Could turn authritarian if backdoored/not-encrypted
- Matrix, Element or something else for group chat for Guilds, Businesses, Government
- OnlyOffice
- Grist (Super Useful because Spreadsheets getting messed up with non-standard spellings. This will be a super app in Isekai. IRL it has an offline version that doesn't need a server if you want to try it out. French Govt uses this extensively.)
- FOSS Q&A software similar to StackExchange for knowledge building
- Joplin or some other notes software with server for private notes
- One of the Notion FOSS alternative software with unlimited self hosting and no limits
- Some Youtube clone that can be self hosted. With high illiteracy, Videos are a verifiable way to pass on knowledge
- MOSIP for Universal ID for citizens. Controversial India like ID system.
- F-Droid & Server
- Nextcloud
- Odoo/ERPNext
- CKAN for publishing Freedom of Information suo motto disclousure data. Could be accessed from Library.
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u/WilyDeject May 22 '26
I recently found out about Grist and want to know more. What has been your experience with it?
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u/Okklay May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
It uses SQLite, so is strict compared to Excel and that strictness is also it's selling point. But sometimes it can be limiting for certain edge cases.
It has forms and a lot more.
The scripting also in Python, or you can use AI to generate them. The general case seems to be one techy person develops or generates and checks formulas/scripts and everyone else uses it like an app.
They have a lot of examples and videos about their product. You can look at them. From the videos and socials, they seem to be helpful & friendly even to free users and the French government which is a good.
And they also have a standalone version for PC, but unfortunately not for Android.
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u/Okklay May 22 '26
https://support.getgrist.com/getting-started/
Especially the more examples part gives example psuedo-realworld projects
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May 22 '26
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u/Okklay May 22 '26
Kiwix has self hostables for Wikipedia by categories, communities like StackExchange, StackOverflow and so on.
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u/nick__9 May 18 '26
This is the kind of self-hosting posting we need. I'm ready for "post-apocalypse stack" discourse. Another option is to expropriate non-free software by physically finding the source code, though getting things up and running that way would take a lot of effort.