Self-hosting, free thinking, and digital sovereignty
My name is Emanuele Gori and in my spare time I write about open source software, digital privacy and self-hosting.
Homelab Notes was born from my belief that technology should serve the people who use it, not the ones who sell it. Here you'll find practical guides and analyses to help you reclaim control of your digital life, one service at a time.
This blog is customized with a few WordPress plugins I built to improve its usability and sharing: open source and freely downloadable from git.emanuelegori.uno.
If you'd rather follow part of my digital life, visit the Activity Hub page.
On the Fediverse as in life: no algorithms in between!
Almost everything I publish here is written in Italian — only a few posts are translated into English, so this English section looks a little empty. You’ll find the full catalogue of articles on the Italian version of the site.…
RSS is a twenty-year-old standard no social network ever asked you to adopt. What it is, how it works, and why keeping it alive still pays off, for you and for writers.
From the '90s web to the social networks that track you: what a webring is, why Fediring makes sense today in the Fediverse, and how to join in five minutes.
Leaving Google and Microsoft seems impossible. It isn't. Browser, search, email, DNS and office: the FOSS alternatives I actually use, verifiable and free.
