pixie

town

I host a lot of stuff, with varying levels of publicness (and usefullness). It's something I do as a hobby, with limited budget, and varying interest/time/spoons. pixie.town is a community-oriented place where I provide free access to a bunch of FOSS services. My personal site is cthu.lu.


!! about Matrix to IRC Bridges !!

Current visitors are likely here due to the possibility of matrix.org discontinuing their IRC bridges. While I occasionally add patches to a fork of matrix-appservice-irc, and use that fork to host bridges to a few networks, I want to make it abundantly clear that this is not a maintained alternative, and even more importantly that these bridges CANNOT sustain an influx of new users. A Synapse homeserver and these bridges can be quite straining to runs as-is, and I have no desire to dedicate more time/resources to it.

This is a hobby project with limited time and resources, and while the bridges I host are technically public, this is mostly for convenience, to be used by communities I am directly involved in (like Dutch Hackerspaces, and the upcoming hacker camp WHY2025).

I would like to avoid having to close down access / kick people off / discontinue my bridges as well. So, please do not use my bridges, sorry

Possible alternatives: heisenbridge, matterbridge, thelounge (IRC client).





Services

Public

git.pixie.town
Git repositories (Forgejo)
pixie.homes
Git-backed static site hosting (Pixie Pages)
pad.pixie.town
Collaborative markdown pad (HedgeDoc)
calc.pixie.town
Collaborative spreadsheets (Ethercalc)
cinny.staging.pixie.town
Cinny Web Matrix client
element.pixie.town
Element Web Matrix client
stats.pixie.town
System status (Grafana)
stats.pixie.town
System status (Grafana)

Closed signups

pixie.town
Matrix Homeserver (Synapse)
Matrix IRC Bridges to Libera, OFTC, Smurfnet (matrix-appservice-irc)
social.pixie.town
Fediverse instance (Mastodon)

Archived somewhere

plume.pixie.town
Blogging (Plume, now as static mirror)
write.pixie.town
Blogging (WriteFreely)
stream.pixie.town
Livestreaming (Owncast)
pixie.town
Mumble

Setup

Everything runs on a sprawling collection of NixOS servers, orchestrated with Colmena (and Morph for older servers). Full system configs are public at <f0x/colmena> and <f0x/nixos>

Current servers:

cosmos
Main server at home - Ryzen 5 2600, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB ssd in ZFS mirror
    Synapse, Mastodon
lego
Backup server at home - FriendlyElec CM3588 NAS Kit
    Still setting up
aura
Main webhost, WireGuard tunnel exit for cosmos traffic - Hetzner CX21 VPS
    HedgeDoc, Ethercalc, Prometheus monitoring, Grafana, Element
arbor
Git related things - Hetzner CX11 VPS
     Forgejo, Pixie Pages
copia
Backup server - AlphaVPS 1TB Storage VPS
     Borg backup repositories
duplo
Backup server - HostHatch 2TB Storage VM
     Borg backup repositories with ZFS snapshot service
via
Matrix to IRC bridge host - Hetzner CX11 VPS
     matrix-appservice-irc fork
stella
Eventual replacement for aura - Hetzner CAX11 VPS
     Cinny Web, *.staging.pixie.town

Old servers:

terra
My original homeserver, a Lenovo Y500 gamer laptop in the utility closet
helios
Old random stuff VPS
luna
WireGuard traffic tunnelling for terra/cosmos, also random stuff