Great! Thank you!

Thank you very much for the info! Maybe I’ll give it a shot again.

I’d also suggest Immich, but with a warning. On their GitHub page, they state:

Did anyone actually use this over a longer period of time, including updates, etc.? How did it work for you?

I think …

If I remember correctly …

I don’t want to fact check what I said right now, because I’m in the bathtub. I’m just talking from the top of my head.

I probably had this in my head, so nothing major.

I like both. But many people don’t even realize that nano has quite a lot of configuration options. To me, they’re text editors, not code editors. For code, I use VSCode (or “code”, the FOSS variant).

*opens up customized nano*

Questions:

I think, the default docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson state that the PostgreSQL password and the pictrs API key have to match? If I remember correctly, they both have something like {{ postgres_password }} as default. I found that weird, but I also didn’t question it.

What do you do if one service requires PostgreSQL 15 and another service requires an older version or something like that? Again, if I remember correctly, Lemmy devs recently downgraded PostgreSQL in the default setup for some reason.

I don’t want to fact check what I said right now, because I’m in the bathtub. I’m just talking from the top of my head.

Don’t get me wrong, I use a similar setup for my homelab, because I hate spinning up several instances of entire database servers just to get a service running. But I’d be lying if I claimed that I never ran into issues with that setup.

Did you look at the logs? If you’re running through docker compose, that’d be docker compose logs --follow container-name.

I have a VM at OVH that’s a couple years old by now. I pay only a couple € for it each month. On that I run Mailcow and it works just fine.

For anyone else wondering: This is an alternative YouTube frontend, nothing federated.

You can’t log in with Google, you can log in with your Piped account.

Content is scraped from YouTube’s site the same way NewPipe does it.

Wonderful!

api.y.donttrackme.fossware.space

LibreTube. Uses Piped as backend and has pretty much all the features that NewPipe has, including SponsorBlock.

You can create an account on one of the numerous Piped instances and log in with LibreTube, to have things synced. Since Piped is open source, you can even selfhost it, if you know how. My Lemmy instance (FOSSware) also has a Piped instance.

Thanks for the heads-up. 😀 It’s not that I consider VB.NET to be my favorite language. I just wanted to say that I don’t feel alright with all the “hate” that I’ve seen in the past when it comes to programming languages. I often see people ask what their first programming language should be and the “gatekeeping” answers are really annoying. Maybe gatekeeping isn’t even the right word…

Got it, but on the other hand (and as someone else commented): With the right settings, VB.NET can be en par with C#, for instance. They both compile to the same MCIL code, so it should really boil down to a matter of personal preference, right?

I feel that many people don’t know that and tend to think back to C64 Basic, etc. and just laugh it off.

I mostly use it for personal projects, yes. I also enjoy other “hated” languages like PHP and Java. To me, they’re just tools to accomplish a task. I also like to play the UNO reverse card: I personally hate projects that run with Electron, for instance. Such a waste of resources, things don’t integrate well into the DE, etc.

May I just ask how VB.NET code isn’t maintainable? Not attacking you here, just out of curiosity. My board game server and client together amount to multiple thousand lines of code, as they’re very feature rich and at the moment, it’s not really hard for me to maintain things. It’s not public yet, though. Still active development phase.

I can use both VB.NET syntax and also C# syntax just fine. I’d even go as far and state that, apart from the syntax, VB.NET is just as good as C# (after some settings adjustments, like Option Strict On, etc.).

I do understand that Visual Basic syntax is kinda alien, though.

I didn’t make it! :) I think, @fmstrat@nowsci.com made it.

The experience has been pretty good, to be honest. No instability, easy updates, etc. I find federated content quite quickly, because I use this script to populate the “All” feed.

23 days.

This is my small instance with way fewer users than lemmy.world.

11G	pictrs
5.2G	postgres

Got a couple more users than that. social.fossware.space

Ah, great. Thanks for the info.

I plan to implement a systemd timer that truly drops data from the database that was marked as “deleted” after around 30 days. I also have a note up that says to contact me if a copy of stored data has to be requested, etc.

Sounds good to me. Any downsides?

I partially agree with you. But my plan is to hand over the entire thing should I fall ill or get tired of hosting and maintaining it.

But in the end, everything’s gonna go away. Even Reddit, like all the platforms before it. That’s just the way things work.

What would be better, though? Having a P2P-like system where everything is truly federated? Like… Everyone has all accounts and all content at all times? I don’t know how this would work.

At this point in time, there are clear advantages to the current federated system, but there are also clear disadvantes, like what you’re describing, as well as some other things, like the different rules and moderation techniques of instances, defederation, etc.

Yes, I figured. My domain name is not as cool as “shitjustworks” or whatever. But I can say that my instance is gonna stay for as long as Lemmy as software is supported, no matter if there are many users or not. I strongly believe that FOSS and the Fediverse are the future and I want to give something to the community by hosting the instance.

Yes, that’s most likely the cause.

Lemmy isn’t hugged to death. The issue is that everyone is just heading to the same handful of instances.

What about the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” addon? Doesn’t that work any more? Also, there seems to be a “Bypass Paywalls Clean” filter list in Brave by default that just needs to be enabled. Anyone tried that one?

Not sure what this vast collection of resources is that you’re pining over.

In that case, I was talking about Plebbit as a whole. Many search results for interesting queries still lead to Reddit.

That already exists. I personally think we should just continue where most of us left off on Reddit and don’t bother about it.

That’s baffling you? The majority of resources are on reddit right now and - unfortunately - people don’t care to move elsewhere. They just want their links and answers to questions that have been asked and answered 10,000 times and that’s it.

Again: Unfortunately.

I thought I was alone with that feeling. I’m in exactly the same boat as you.

For me, it’s a tiny bit different, because I played BOTW shortly before my daughther was born in 2017. I still had time for games like that back in the day. Now I don’t only have a daughter, but a son as well.

When I grab the controller and start playing something time intensive like BOTW and now TOTK, I usually feel really guilty really quick, because there are so many other things to do, that in theory should have a higher priority.

Maybe try running it through Steam with Proton-GE? Or use Bottles? Or Lutris?

That’s what’s most likely going on, you’re right.

Totally get the rant. Sometimes you just need to vent. No hypocrisy here, IMHO.

r/piracy users out of all? Wow, I can’t even believe that, as piracy to me is the epitome of freedom, which Reddit itself certainly isn’t.

“Mod Bootlickers”, huh? I’d call them “Spez Bootlickers” in return. Wth.

Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.

Thank you, I just set up a SystemD timer for the Python script.