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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolt became Stoat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server?

  That’s like asking why Lemmy needs federation if posts are tied to a Community.

  No federation means:

  • Every server requires a different user account to join a room
  • Every server needs to be accessed from a different URL
  • Users in different servers cannot direct message, call, or friendlist one another

  Federated platforms aren’t perfect, but they solve these problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolt became Stoat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting an HTTP 522 from that link. What’s Polyproto?

  Also, is there a reason you’re not considering Matrix?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolt became Stoat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.

  I’ve been periodically checking in with Revolt Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:

  1. Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
  2. Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they’re not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.

  I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.

  Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Smells like desperation. Still struggling to find a sustainable business model are we?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep your private key on their servers.

  Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  double grins in self-hosted Fedi instances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol yeah I definitely have more downtime than AWS.

  The main differences are:

  1. I usually control when that downtime is.
  2. I can inform literally every single person that uses it exactly what is down, why, and approximately for how long.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can hear the smug grins on homelabber’s faces from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy being pinged each midnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How could we tell you about an IP inside your own network? Look at the host using that IP and see what’s running on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that Futurama “Scary Door” bit where the scientist creates a robot to automate everything in his life and realizes gets shocked when the robot gets all the credit: futurama.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scary_Door#Episode_7…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3154: Physics Insight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good, it means you’re on the right track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue this is an intended play style. They made camping and the natural world extremely detailed on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birds are a class of dinosaurs, biologically speaking. That means, Dino nuggets are legitimately made from dinosaur meat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably think about the fact that dinosaurs probably tasted delicious more than I should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, why self-host? A cloud-based solution would accomplish this very easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk it doesn’t seem like there are any legal consequences for tech companies anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If avoiding downtime is your number one priority and you’re willing to take on a lot of complexity to achieve it, then Kubernetes is probably the way to go. There are various chat platforms that can be distributed, but keeping a game server state synced between nodes isn’t an easy task. There’s a reason most multiplayer games are instanced.

  I do find it a little odd that you’re so concerned about uptime with a casual gaming server, but to each their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, that’s more accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not slop, this is political misinformation. Call it what it is.

  Slop is annoying, but it’s just AI generated spam. This is much more purposeful and insidious. The tools you used to make it are irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing memes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this idea floated before a few times, and it’s a thought I’ve had before myself–some sort of self-hosted version of gify. AFAIK nothing exists as of writing, but I’ve seen this idea crop up enough times that maybe there’s a demand for this sort of thing.

  Personally, I just have a well-organized meme folder that I sync between my client devices with syncthing, but something a little more integrated and easier to search might be fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is probably more due to user data laws rather than ideological opposition, but I’ll take the win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, I don’t know about that either. While scale is their primary purpose, another core tenant of containerization is reproducibility. For example

  1. If you are developing any sort of software, containers are a great way to ensure that the environment of your builds remains consistent.
  2. If you are frequently rebuilding a server/application for any reason, containers provide a good way to ensure everything is configured exactly as it was before, and when used with Git, changes are easy to track. There are also other tools that excel at this (like Ansible).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you host on more than one machine? Containerization / virtualization begins to shine most brightly when you need to scale / migrate across multiple servers. If you’re only running one server, I definitely see how bare metal is more straight-forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Techbros really struggle with consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also look at his right hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3143: Question Mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually thought this was going to be the punchline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine still using Reddit in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me literally every time my friends start bitching about Instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex isn’t perfect, but the open-source aspect of Jellyfin is holding the platform back. Fractured development across its third-party ecosystem prevents any clients from being as functional as apps like Plexamp while also creating hyper-focused support for popular platforms and leaving smaller platforms virtually unsupported.

  This is a strange take. Being open source doesn’t cause unfocused development and platform prioritization issues. Those both happen to proprietary software, especially the latter.

  These are more symptoms of it being a community project rather than developed by a company, but community FOSS projects can also be run very effectively. There are many examples of this.

  A lot of FOSS development is done by the people who use it. So I suspect as more people move away from Plex, a subset of those users will help contribute to the aspects of Jellyfin they care about.

  Jellyfin development is accelerating, while Plex’s enshittification is accelerating. The line is different for everyone, and one by one, I suspect Plex will cross them all.