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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Debian is a good base for a server, but most people don’t bother with a fancy desktop on their server 😅
The machine is probably going to be a bit expensive to run 24/7 due to the old CPU and probably unecessary GPU, but it depends on the electricity prices where you live.
Start with some basic things you actually want to use. It’s not hard and you can figure out most things with some persistence and web searches.
- Comment on What Nextcloud document service setup would you recommend? 1 day ago:
What you need to be aware off is that the LibreOffice based options run a full headless LibreOffice client on the server for each connecting user and stream the UI as tiles to the webclients. If you mostly use low power devices to access your office files remotely this can be great as it offloads the processing to the server. But I think in most home server or VPS settings the server speed is the more limiting factor.
OnlyOffice on the other hand runs entirely in your browser and thus puts little extra strain on the server.
- Comment on Hardware recommendations 2 days ago:
Many people like cheap refurbished thinclients, and Intel CPUs 6th gen or newer are not so bad on power consumption.
A RasberryPi has the advantage that you will find a lot of easy to follow guides and if you get a NVMe hat for it to have fast database storage then Nextcloud should be relatively happy (it is a bit bloated these days).
- Comment on Any fediverse like discord clones? 2 days ago:
actually implemented the matrix protocol, so it’s interoperable with matrix.
They originally planned this, but realized along the way that the Matrix specs are overly complicated and change at the wim of Element, so they ended up only supporting a link to Synapse via the appservice system, which isn’t great as it means you have to run both Rocketchat and Synapse on the same server for it to work.
- Comment on bewCloud is a modern and simpler alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud written in TypeScript 3 days ago:
I switched to github.com/kd2org/karadav from Nextcloud as I can continue using the Nextcloud apps and other WebDAV integrations. Together with www.filestash.app it makes for a quite nice and lightweight Nextcloud alternative.
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- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 3 days ago:
XMPP is great. Movim.eu is a nice webclient for it that also does macro-blogging.
Akkoma serves me well for the micro-blogging part of the Fediverse.
- Comment on Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance? 3 days ago:
GoToSocial is just another Fediverse software that works with multiple users like any other. The difference is really only that it is tuned more towards smaller instances and as a result is easier to set up and maintain. It also assumes most people will be using a mobile app with it anyways and thus the built in webclient is very bare bones. It does work fine with external webclients like Phanpy though.
- Comment on BotKit 0.2.0 released 3 days ago:
I am aware of that and explicitly didn’t write ActivityPub c2s api 🙄
- Comment on BotKit 0.2.0 released 3 days ago:
Quite interesting that this functions as an independent AP server instead of using the c2s api like most othet bots 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You can still manually query accounts, yes. But that is not what I said.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This only applies to old posts. New post will not be send to lemmy.ml anymore.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 5 days ago:
It does work on the latest version of the default interface. There was a fix recently.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 5 days ago:
I agree on the global forum aspect of Twitter being the reason it was exciting for public figures and journalists, but you get waaay more genuine interactions from normal (techy) people on Mastodon. It may feel a bit dead when you start out because there is no algorithm to feed you content, but after a while of using it you get a lot of interesting opinions and feedback on things you post.
- Comment on What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation. 6 days ago:
Maybe, but I ended up with Woodpecker for now.
- Comment on What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation. 6 days ago:
You might want to look into: github.com/lab132/buildbot-gitea
- Comment on finally got static IP from a new ISP 1 week ago:
GoToSocial works without problems on Podman, they probably just meant that they can’t give technical support for it.
👍 for hosting a xmpp server. Next step is to get a real domain name!
- Comment on Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)? 1 week ago:
You must have last used XMPP more than a decade ago, since none of these issues still exist (except on Pidgin which also hasn’t been updated since a decade).
And XMPP is also not a “chatty protocol, and wasteful of network bandwidth” at all. In fact it is using significantly less bandwidth than Matrix and works on extremely shitty connections. It is basically the exact opposite of what you say.
- Comment on Postiz v1.39.2 - Open-source social media scheduling tool, Introducing MCP. 1 week ago:
They even have their own fake crypto-coin!
This is like a full set of bullshit bingo on one page 🤦♂️
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
The problem is that you are the ideologue but fail to realize that. Capitalism is an ideology and a very harmful one.
As for those investments, lets see, but I don’t expect much to come from those.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
You are mixing up two topics here. If someone wants to experiment with a local only algorithmic feed that’s fine, but I can practically guarantee that this will never be enough to convince people to switch from TikTok and the like.
And the other topic is about commercialization. You are the one stuck in the past thinking that is the only way for the Fediverse to succeed. Quite on the contrary, if anyone seriously tried that it would fail quickly and just result in burned investments and a lot of goodwill towards the Fediverse lost.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
There is absolutely nothing stopping the personalization algorithms to run on-device or delegated to a separate service from the video feed.
But that is not how the TikTok recommendation algorithm works and doing it locally only would be a very poor substitute most likely, as it seem to also recommend what other people with a similar behavior pattern have liked. And the same algorithm is used to identify suitable targets for advertisers, so the two are basically inseparable.
provided we get to a place Fediverse is relevant enough to attract the attention of some small business, media channels, institutions, etc.
That’s like saying the community garden needs to be relevant enough to attract a seed shop and a fast-food stand etc. And a few weeks later there is no more community garden but rather a strip mall owned by the local oligopolists renting out booths to entrepreneurs. That is just not helpful at all, because it destroys the very foundation of what the Fediverse tries to achieve.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
Have you actually talked to some people using TikTok? Yes, they do like the personalized algorithmic feed, and that is inseperable from the surveillance part, and they certainly don’t want to pay for it either.
The ones with hubris are people like you that think they can turn the Fediverse into the next big thing. Of course people already on the fediverse are going try raining on your parade 🤷
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
See long argument above. It exists and is viable for millions of people. Once people decide they want something other than corporate social media, the Fediverse is there. There is no point in trying to make the Fediverse a copy of the corporate social media to appeal to users that see no reason to switch. The Fediverse is relevant regardless of the size, because it proves an real alternstive is posdible and viable.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
You sound like a reverse Tankie 😅 No proof of anything other than your ortodox economic believes, and when confronted with the living proof of the opposite (the Fediverse) you just claim that it can’t and will never exist 🤦
Millions of people are using it every month, and it seems to do just fine despite contstant claims since many years that it can’t survive…
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
I just wish that next time we don’t see someone as “toxic” just because they were not willing to put up with all these silly rules and rituals that everyone seems to follow without questioning.
Something, something Chestertons fence…
These “rituals” are vital for the continued existence of the Fediverse. Without a clear anti-capitalist and anti-oligopolist stance it will be co-opted and destroyed like many similar efforts that came before. You are being very naive if you can’t see that.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
Many of these email providers only exist as a less bad alternative but compatible with Gmail etc. And the oligopol could shut them down any time as their primary service is sending emails to the oligopol.
What you are proposing is basically to make the Fediverse a small managed opposition to Meta’s Threads, which I am sure Zuckerberg would love.
But that is not what the Fediverse tries to be and neither does it aim to become mainstream. We are doing prefigurative infrastructure building here. If people want to join, great. If not, also no problem. But if society decides to finally get rid of this capitalist hellscape, then the Fediverse will be there and ready to use.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
You can argue all you want about definitions, but that doesn’t change the fact that these companies are at the wim of the large oligopolies and pose absolutly no threat to them, nor do they even want to because their business indirectly depends on these oligopoles existing.
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 1 week ago:
Now you are contradicting yourself. Sure, there are survival niches for small cockroach companies in the shawdow of the large FOSS based oligopolies, but that is the status quo and no improvement at all.
- Comment on Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)? 1 week ago:
Synapse has become open-core and the possible alternatives are either abandoned or are currently in a really unclear state. And due to how Matrix federation works, it is quite difficult to change anything later and if you are unhappy with the setup you have basically burned a domain and need to start fresh on another. If you just want a chat server I would rather suggest to set up a XMPP server with a Slidge.im Matrix bridge.
That said: there are easy to use official Docker containers for Synapse, and you just need a redirect in your reverse-proxy for some sub-directories to put it on the same domain than something else. There are also some other, more complex ways to do it, but just redirecting the subdirectories is the easiest.