I pay Bitwarden the tenner a year as I have no reason to distrust them and they’re definitely providing a more reliable, securer service than I can self-host.
I also do an encrypted export once per week and store that export to an encrypted cloud based service and an encrypted USB stick. Takes 2 minutes.
Bandcamp is still OK for me and I listen to some fairly obscure stuff.
Just to offer a heads up - there’s a new solution/site which is currently in Beta but is backed by good people (musicians). It needs an influx of music diversity (lots of metal at the moment) but if it gets that when it comes out of beta then it could very well be a good Bandcamp replacament - Ampwall
We do tell people. For example, when you get off the train at Reading station it clearly says “Welcome to Reading”.
Looks like yunohost with a nicer interface but less apps and less config options.
Free speech is a good thing. Absolute free speech is the excuse shit people use to air their shitty opinions.
In my own personal experience, Nextcloud;
I ain’t saying you’re wrong or your points are invalid, but bear in mind that Lemmy is a very young piece of software. It will evolve to cope with these kind of issues and if the lead devs don’t step up, then - as was seen in the near-recent CSAM attacks - the community will and develop it’s own set of tools/plug-ins.
All social media type software goes through a kind of perpetual arms-race with bad actors and whilst it’s not impossible, it’s often very difficult to anticipate what method the next lot of bad actors will chose to attack the lemmyverse with.
Calibre on local machine, sharing a database with self-hosted calibre-web, OPDS enabled using a Kobo to read.
Thanks to the one person who actually posted something on topic I’ve found a few things I can modify.
I asked for help in a self-hosting community. How could my desired location be misunderstood by anyone with an IQ above 10?
This little side -journey has been a complete waste of time. All I wanted was a recommendation or two relevant to things I needed which I clearly explained in my post. Instead I got told I was making no sense and should use third party solutions which is a remarkable thing to read in a self hosting community where I would assume most people realise others want y’know to self host.
If people don’t have relevant recommendations they could’ve just said that or even better, say nothing.
Sorry, I don’t want to be rude but youre talking rubbish.
Getting all of them to install a big offline application with an interface that is totally new to them and will require a substantial learning curve if there’s a possible solution that allows them to simply and easily do the only thing they need is ridiculous.
What on earth are you talking about? How is an offline editor like Photoshop or GIMP in any way comparable to a simple app like the one i described in my post, that simply allows a user to add text to an image?
Kind of. But it wouldn’t be for memes. So that functionality but not that purpose.
Edit: using that as a search phrase has given me a lot of options that I can fork. Thanks for putting the idea in my head :)
What doesn’t make sense about it? They don’t have the knowledge to use an offline image editor so I’d like to offer them the ability to make very simple changes to an image. Photopea is beyond what they need and would no doubt be equally confusing for them.
Then they don’t fall under the heading of ‘sane people’.
OK, so they’re a fucked up fool.
Sadly though, I’m pretty sure I could extend that judgement to a lot of people whose products/services I use, it’s simply impossible to go through life only using products and services who’s owners/developers have values, beliefs and opinions that match your own.
The best ‘revenge’ (if that’s the right word) is to use their stuff for activities that counteract their shitty opinions.
The ability to easily connect with Caliber mainly. But also its much more privacy respecting.
Well, I think the people here prior to Rexit were already producing good content and then the people who moved over from Reddit were primarily people annoyed by u/spez and who valued content quality and genuinely wanted a decent platform. There’ll be times when things get shitty but by and large I do think Lemmy had a good start. We just really need the devs to give some power to instance admins and Mods via decent tools, because the one thing that will kill progress is people not being able to curate and protect their Communities.
Never really understood the thought process “If I move to a different place, it’ll definitely be magically free of arseholes and people I disagree with.” It’s just not reflective of reality - wherever you go, there’ll be arseholes. Just build your Subscribed feed, dip into All occasionally to se what else is out there, find an instance that takes moderation seriously and aren’t actual fascists and block the strays that occasionally make it through.
And OOP is right to say Lemmy has backend issues. The dev team of 2 people is too small and they really need to make safety a massive priority ASAP. Being able to block instances as a user is a big step forward (planned in the next major release I believe) but both mod and admin tools need to be much better and they need to do a lot more to tackle CSAM hits. I hope they’re taking note of the various projects @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has begun to tackle these issues.
In terms of the size of the Lemmyverse, I don’t really give a shit about that. What I care about is quality rather than quantity and it stands to reason that as quality continues to improve (as I believe it is) then quantity will follow in its wake.
OOP seems to forget that Lemmy only got as big as it is right now about 4 months ago - of course there’s a lack of niche communities and of course there’s a lack of tools. Poor old Ernst developing KBin got hit with tens of thousands of users for software that wasn’t even out of Alpha.
The best things we can do as users is create good content, encourage discussion etc even when it feels like we’re talking into the void. Because sooner or later, if the content is good, people will engage. We’re not at that tipping point yet but it’ll come if we put the effort in.
There was some talk awhile ago of the devs maybe extending feeds beyond Communities to Posts and Comments too but I don’t think it ever got off the ground. Would certainly be way easier to do what I think you want if they did exist.