Update: CMA moving in right direction? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/22/apple-google-face-enforced-changes-uk-mobile-phone-dominance-uk-competition-watchdog-stricter-oversight

Dan is a UK based full stack web developer who is working on Bookstack, a self-hostable wiki platform (MIT license).

On Google's recent announcement about developer verification he writes:

This is a massive leap in control, further centralising approval power to Google across the entire Android ecosystem while cementing themselves as the ultimate gatekeeper of what users can run on their own devices, all under the guise of security. This is a further step away from an open ecosystem, while being harmful to any platform competition & innovation.

...as a UK resident I feel my best bet to counter this is via the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA).

He includes his report as a basis for others to use perhaps.

Dan is a UK based full stack web developer who is working on Bookstack, a self-hostable wiki platform (MIT license).

On Google's recent announcement about developer verification he writes:

This is a massive leap in control, further centralising approval power to Google across the entire Android ecosystem while cementing themselves as the ultimate gatekeeper of what users can run on their own devices, all under the guise of security. This is a further step away from an open ecosystem, while being harmful to any platform competition & innovation.

...as a UK resident I feel my best bet to counter this is via the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA).

He includes his report as a basis for others to use perhaps.

Dan is a UK based full stack web developer who is working on Bookstack, a self-hostable wiki platform (MIT license).

On Google's recent announcement about developer verification he writes:

This is a massive leap in control, further centralising approval power to Google across the entire Android ecosystem while cementing themselves as the ultimate gatekeeper of what users can run on their own devices, all under the guise of security. This is a further step away from an open ecosystem, while being harmful to any platform competition & innovation.

...as a UK resident I feel my best bet to counter this is via the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA).

He includes his report as a basis for others to use perhaps.

I just read Mark Kermode's book about The Exorcist and really enjoyed it, finding new appreciation for the film. Any recommendations for books that have elevated a movie for you?

Edit: thanks for all your help and replies, this is a such a great community!

I would like to host a public service for some family, probably Peertube so we can share some videos. Invite only.

There's no way I'm going to get everyone onto a VPN, it's a non-starter though I would prefer it.

I am thinking to use a VPS with anubis and either crowdsec or fail2ban (or both?!) in front of Peertube. Will apply as much hardening as I can muster behind that: things in containers, systemd hardening, SELinux/Apparmor enabled/tuned, separate users for services, the usual. All ports shut except 80/443, firewall up.

Despite all this I expect it will get scanned and attacked as it will have to expose ports 80/443 to the world so for family it will just work.

Is there anything else I should consider for security? Is Peertube the weakest link in the chain? (a little concerned their min password length is 6 it seems and no 2fa). So long as I keep whole thing up-to-date is it as secure as anybody can manage these days (without resorting to VPN)?

Is it all too much hassle and I should look for a company that offers hosted Peertube so they can worry about it?

Thanks for any and all advice.

As title, available in UK a bonus!

A 'masterpiece'!

Figured I'd ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after their photos.

What do you do with friends' photos you'd like to keep hold of? Maybe there's a pic on a chat app or they've sent you a link to an album on google photos.

Would you just throw into your own pile of photos or do you carefully adjust metadata to indicate who took them? Just use dirs to separate them from your own? Interested in any and all thoughts.