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NarohDethan said:
Slowly trying to leave bsky to go back to Mastodon as well. Fuck those transphobes.
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Yeah was actually thinking about deleting my bluesky. While I do still have hope for it in terms of tech and potential to be not bound to the shits that run it now. Sadly also seems most of game dev people are still going to be there no matter what, and even worse alot are still on x. Mastodon seems to be have a bit of a reputation. That said Mastodon is the best!:D Even made my own blog engine compatible with mastodon.
 
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Those of you who do self-hosting, how and what do you use? I was mostly looking into trying self-hosting like mastodon, so that would have to be an online hosting thingie. I see Yuno host being mentioned, but don't think my web hosting has support for that, I do have support for installing thing like a python app and so on but seems self-hosting stuff seem more dependent on running and having control over a virtual machine right?
 
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lashman said:
i don't :P i run it on my pc, haha, so i only really have to pay for the domain
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But do you host any online stuff on it? I could use my Mac mini to host stuff, but for like mastodon I probably want something that is fully online. Also you are not worried about having a direct pipe into your private network? I guess its not much worse than torrenting stuff
 
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Le Pertti said:
But do you host any online stuff on it? I could use my Mac mini to host stuff, but for like mastodon I probably want something that is fully online. Also you are not worried about having a direct pipe into your private network? I guess its not much worse than torrenting stuff
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well i'm using nginx proxy manager for protection from a lot of exploits, so it's not a completely direct access, plus - i have it on my old pc, so there's only the hosted stuff on there, nothing else

but yes, i do host online stuff on it
 
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I run some services from my home server. Currently I’m putting them all behind Cloudflare Tunnels with single sign on for authentication, but I’m looking to move a few of them behind my own reverse proxy so I can bypass file size and data transfer limits imposed by Cloudflare. Also privacy.
 
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Loops Joins the Fediverse

We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web. What This Actually Means If you're on Loops, you can now follow creators on Mastodon...
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Switched from Safari to Vivaldi on my MacBook Pro, and I’m very pleased with the experience so far.

It’s snappy, the UI is excellent and there’s none of that Liquid Glass shite on it.

Will be making the switch across all my devices soon!
 
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Something that worries me, is that everytime someone tries to prop themselves up by putting down others it's doomed to fail, there's no way Affinity isn't going the way of Adobe. Also that is something that worries me greatly about the fediverse, especially Pixelfed and Loops, their whole indentity is shitting on what they copy. Mastodon can be little better on that front but so much of Mastodon discussion is shitting on anything that isn't Mastodon. It's super toxic.

As they saying goes, "Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king."
 
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Finally set up my domain and email stuff so I can resume my degoogle migration. I decided to stick with mailbox.org in the end (🇪🇺) even though I still have some issues with their UI/UX. You get 50 email aliases when you set up your custom domain and that's going to be plenty for me, plus of course I can still keep using the mailbox.org domain for a bunch more if I want to. The other option I was considering was fastmail and while their inbox is bigger and I think they offer even more aliases, it's also more expensive. And I'm using like 600 megs of my 10gig mailbox so I don't see myself ever needing more space there.

Now the decision I need to make is, what kind of aliases am I going to be using. Generate some random stuff? That's kind of been my go-to before the custom domain, but with a domain I could do like xbox at customdomain.com style addresses too.
Maybe I'll come up with some kind of dumb theme, so for like Loaded (cdkeys) I'll just make the alias "unloaded", and like aliexpress could be something like "espresso". Eg not exactly the thing I would use it for but some weird thing to make my inbox less boring. :toucan:
 
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Mastodon 4.5

Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.
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Ice Cubes for Mastodon is a fast and customizable iOS client with a modern look (made in France)
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Ice Cubes for Mastodon App - App Store

Download Ice Cubes for Mastodon by Thomas Ricouard on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Ice Cubes for Mastodon…
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Phanpy is a clean minimalist web client with multi-column support
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Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
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Both allows you to pin groups of hashtags as feeds which i find very useful.
 
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NarohDethan said:
I'm considering a switch to Zen browser now that Firefox is chasing that AI nonsense.
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I don't trust any corporation and moreso slightly compromised corporations, even I don't ever trust any with AI promises (usually in my case it's because usually a preemptive promise in open source AI signifies incoming disappointment, most of the great stuff comes in under the radar or stealth), but is there anything in particular odious about anything they've said? Doesn't sound like they're turning Firefox into an agentic browser nor capturing user data for training etc.

The biggest issue seems to be they're incredibly vague and bandwagon hopping rather than saying specific objective goals.
 
Yeah I'm moving to Vivaldi as well, probably. I don't love the idea of using a chromium based browser but I'm not loving the direction of Mozilla at all. So I'm probably also ditching Thunderbird while I'm at it.
It's not like Mozilla making bad decisions is a new thing of course, I'm already heavily modifying the UI as is on both because I haven't really liked that direction for a long time.
If only we could somehow properly decouple Chromium from Google.
And Gecko from Mozilla for that matter. It feels like Mozilla is circling the drain financially (I have no idea if that is actually the case!), and if they go under, will Gecko survive? It's open source sure, but I'm not very optimistic about its future if I'm honest.
I guess it's possible that someone would step in, like maybe the Linux Foundation would shelter it and continue developing it like they did with Servo, who knows.
 
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Also, what search engine do y'all use? I set Vivaldi to DuckDuckGo but it also contains ads and AI shit
 
NarohDethan said:
Also, what search engine do y'all use? I set Vivaldi to DuckDuckGo but it also contains ads and AI shit
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I use Startpage (read more about them on Wikipedia). They dont track you, present generally good results, have minimal ads – and no AI crap.

Regarding DDG and ads etc: well, any web service that isnt paid or crowd-funded will usually contain ads ... you could always block them though. Vivaldi has a built-in blocker, but you can also install things like uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin is also useful for blocking specific website elements (like AI buttons or ads that slip through, or whathaveyou)

But I just checked, and DDG lets you at least deactivate its AI "features": see here
 
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I was wondering, what music service in terms of long term storage of playlists and sharing is the best? Right now I have all my playlists in Apple Music but if I ever stop paying for it I will lose them, Spotify is better in terms of saving stuff but they are so shitty as a company... I could make playlists on youtube I guess. Mostly its my yearly game music playlists that I want to save and share easily.
 
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I was wondering, what music service in terms of long term storage of playlists and sharing is the best? Right now I have all my playlists in Apple Music but if I ever stop paying for it I will lose them, Spotify is better in terms of saving stuff but they are so shitty as a company... I could make playlists on youtube I guess. Mostly its my yearly game music playlists that I want to save and share easily.
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I used Tidal for a couple of months and it was okay. But sharing is a no no IIRC
 
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Le Pertti said:
I was wondering, what music service in terms of long term storage of playlists and sharing is the best? Right now I have all my playlists in Apple Music but if I ever stop paying for it I will lose them, Spotify is better in terms of saving stuff but they are so shitty as a company... I could make playlists on youtube I guess. Mostly its my yearly game music playlists that I want to save and share easily.
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i just use Swing to self-host my library
 
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Right now I just have my music collection on my PC and just listen, it works just fine, but its more the sharing of playlists that I want to do. I mean I could just have a list with titles and so on, but that isnt very interesting for people. I guess there is no way to share music these days other than either youtube or pirating. Or of course unless both people are on the same streaming service
 
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Right now I just have my music collection on my PC and just listen, it works just fine, but its more the sharing of playlists that I want to do. I mean I could just have a list with titles and so on, but that isnt very interesting for people. I guess there is no way to share music these days other than either youtube or pirating. Or of course unless both people are on the same streaming service
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well you CAN self-host, and share that way :P just saying, haha
 
lashman said:
well you CAN self-host, and share that way :P just saying, haha
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Doesn't sound very legal lol. Mostly I want to do it the legal way because I want to be able to do yearly game music playlists, even in the future when lets say I have my own game out, running a "pirate streaming service" then is just asking for trouble
 
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