This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.

I’m itching so hard to block both.

Supporting both is in order. As one is pointless without the other

Mastodon exists. It’s pretty good. Using 2 apps is fine.

I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.

Wow that’s a great idea

In retrospect, I’m really glad all of this shit with Reddit happened and lemmy became a thing in my life. Was bummed initially when Apollo died, but now despite needed polish in lemmy apps, the experience here is much much better and I would never go back.

For app data, Borg as backup/restore software. Backup data is then stored on Hetzner as an offsite backup - super easy and cheap to setup. Also add healthchecks.io to get notified if a backup failed.

Edit: Backup docker compose files and other scripts (without API keys!!!) with git to GitHub.

It’s literally takes 2 clicks to tunnel via a VPN

That sounds like an excellent solution for web based apps, but what about services like Plex or Nextcloud that use their own client side apps?

The easiest option ATM would be for an app to combine both communities into one synthetic feed

The easiest option ATM would be for an app to combine both communities into one synthetic feed

It feels like it is possible to have a conversation here. In Reddit I felt like my comments were getting buried

Those are good points. Don’t implement ActivityPub and avoid the problem all together.

I’d recommend Debian Linux. It’s free, stable, has all the software you’ll need with long term support, ton of online resources and communities to learn from. You can start with or without UI.

OP is correct. We have very little to to gain and everything to lose.

Yeah that’s a possibility. They could do something like “ohh too bad Killer Feature X is looking so badly on Mastodon. On Threads it will look so much better”. Essentially using fedi as a crappy demo for Threads. That sounds like a typical business plan to me.

Even when it is installed as a separate app?

Using wefwef.app (it’s a web app) and it’s great. Sometimes I need remind myself that I’m not using Apollo.