I am not sure about how lightweight they are (but I guess more than WordPress for sure) but on the federated side of things you have plume (https://joinplu.me/) and writefreely (https://writefreely.org/) that you can selfhost. Not super sure about how much you can customize them.

The first jump to Debian was the most intimidating for me learning CLI commands for the first time and not having defaults chosen for me, but it was liberating to finally learn the actual tools and not just learn a GUI abstraction for tools.

I feel it, I am in the process now of transporting everything and I couldn’t agree more. I have a semi-idea of trying nixOS sometime, and I only recently learned about podman existence, is it that different to docker? I read it’s not a 100% replacement, but I guess it depends on the use-cases.

I see Proxmox mentioned a lot, but haven’t had the time to test it out. I will stick with Debian+Docker for now, but if it’s that convenient I might take a look at it one day :)

And you can experiment as much as you want and break stuff.

I really like this part especially

Nice to know I am not alone! And I only recently started with linux, so I guess it’s not really something that goes away with time 😂

I need to take a look at an immutable OS sooner or later, although I feel I would be annoyed for not being able to modify stuff for my liking (probably I will never be satisfied in any case)

Thanks for the answer : downtime isn’t a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music) for the days I will be without the server.

You are absolutely right, I haven’t checked the backups yet, but I will make sure to do it. I was thinking to wipe radarr or sonarr, reinstall the container and restore from their manual backups, to see if everything works. For Immich is probably safer to start from scratch, I don’t have that many photos backed-up anyway and I heard it might not always work.