If you want to keep up with friends/family, you can do a chat group on any of the many messengers. Or even use an RCS/iMessage group. You don’t need a full-blown social media thingy for this.

There’s dockurr/samba which is also pretty easy to setup, but doesn’t allow much deviation from the defaults.

You’ll find it a much more encouraging and rewarding experience if you connect with people instead

And you’ll find that a lot of your so-called “friends” won’t include you in any activities if it means they have to contact you separately via other means.

# https://github.com/ServerContainers/samba

services:
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/servercontainers/samba:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/London
      MODEL: MacSamba
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_STANZA: "vfs objects = acl_xattr catia fruit streams_xattr; fruit:nfs_aces = no; inherit permissions = yes; fruit:model = MacSamba; fruit:posix_rename = yes; fruit:veto_appledouble = no; fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes; fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes; fruit:metadata = stream"
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_load_SPACE_printers: no
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printing: bsd
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printcap_SPACE_name: /dev/null
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_disable_SPACE_spoolss: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_min_SPACE_protocol: SMB2
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_bind_SPACE_interfaces_SPACE_only: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_interfaces: lo eth0
      SAMBA_CONF_SERVER_STRING: Docker Host Samba
      #SAMBA_CONF_LOG_LEVEL: 3
      ACCOUNT_shareuser: mypassword
      UID_shareuser: 1000
      # avahi seems to introduce issues with the share
      # "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "xxx" can't be found."
      AVAHI_DISABLE: true
      WSDD2_DISABLE: true
      #NETBIOS_DISABLE: true
      SAMBA_VOLUME_CONFIG_myshare: "[myshare]; path=/shares/myshare; valid users = shareuser; guest ok = no; read only = no; browseable = yes"
    volumes:
      - /path/to/myshare:/shares/myshare

Just make sure you don’t have any local SMB server running on the host. And if you need multiple different shares, these all need to go into the same container or you need to define different ports if you use multiple containers.

why bother with the aliases

Because once some service “loses” (or sells) your email and you start getting spam, it’s pretty easy to burn that specific email address and change it to something else with that specific service and the spam will stop.

Well, it’s not a protocol, Subsonic is an app that became pretty famous in the MP3 era and had a nice API for which various clients were developed.

The source code was Open Source in the early days which was forked into e.g. AirSonic, MadSonic, LibreSonic.

Those projects are dormant for a few years now. That’s why new ones have emerged that simulate the same API so all the client apps can still be used with them.

EDIT: Looks like these are projects that support the Subsonic API and are still in active development:

• Funkwhale (also: federated)
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Airsonic-Advanced
• LMS
• Astiga
• Nextcloud/ownCloud Music
• SupySonic (headless server)