Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. I ended up install forgejo yesterday but Gitea will be my next option if I encounter any issues

Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through ‘search’ to follow them.

The article does touch on some of the main instance’s issues towards the bottom too I just found out.

If nothing else, the article is great for a breakdown of the features of Firefish. I’ve been a user for 2-3 months and didn’t know a lot of the info covered.

On a related note, I was on firefish.social but it was very buggy for me after a while. Thought about throwing in the towel but eventually realized that it was instance specific.

I have since migrated to calckey.world (Calckey -> Firefish instance that didn’t change its name) and the experience has been buttery smooth.

It’s completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software

Convenience is the main issue. AFAIK, as long as you secure your device, it’ll do the job

This is going increasingly off topic.

1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
3. ‘The point’ is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I’ve provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.

It’s a free, open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless

Basically you search wikipedia w/o tracking.

The owner is the guy who created JavaScript and is funded by controversial right-winger Peter Thiel

Not a huge deal, but if the SSD goes on to last for X more years, buying an SSD today to save a bit of time will seem pretty poorly thought-out in retrospect

Proprietary so it’s a long shot but maybe start a convo w/ the creator of Boring Report as a last ditch effort perhaps.

Good insight. We must protect @bug at all costs.

Great response 👍🏾

What surprised me was the amount of Android users. I guess self-hosters are predisposed to tinkering in general perhaps?

7 years support for (new & future) Pixels & 10 years of support for Chromebooks. WATTBA

I agree re: malicious compliance. Also leading w/ the web price knowing that the majority of their base uses mobile devices to connect

m/TheyDidTheMath

It feels like every other post on privacy and technology is someone pushing the (paid) search engine Kagi nowadays…

There’s a visual I didn’t need this fine day

There is an irony that only one person in all the photos looks under 35…

Installed Gogs but will switch the this FOSS version tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!

How’s it compare to gitea?

The lure of far right themes are globalized admittedly

• Hates migrants
• Ravaged by a drug crisis
• Glorifies the past as a ‘simpler’ time (even while acknowledging that this time had apartheid)

From MAGA to South Africa to Eastern Europe

Mines too. Glad it’s happening tho to circumvent the e-waste from those that aren’t as aware/adventurous.

Way to go Cali!

Definitely look into laptop servers. They have the benefit of having a built-in screen, keyboard and battery in case power goes down. IMO, as a fellow newbie, it’s an easy way to dip your toes into hosting using existing/cheap resources

Simple, yet better UX than most server-related content. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about ctop.

I installed Debian on a laptop to use as a server, and planned to use it for Firefly III among other things, but got nervous hearing how tough it was/is to lock down a server.

It doesn’t seem largely different from the openly brazen acts he’s committed in the past. It seems farfetched that invading an entire country won’t get you murdered, but murdering a shifty mercenary will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

I listen to a LOT of podcasts and their chemistry is unrivaled. It’s popularity has made both of them ‘go-to’ sources for tech as of late and so they often get scoops/interviews on top of their banter as well.

To the uninitiated, Firefish is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy

Whoops, just remembered that I found the above course to be better suited for IT professionals/people with prior knowledge. Here is his course that I’m currently taking.

I find it to be much easier to follow than his prior-mentioned course

I’ve been using my library’s membership to LinkedIn Learning to take a Docker Essentials course

Thank you for this. Just signed up myself and in terms of UI/UX, Calckey is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy… perhaps to an even greater degree

I’m still using public instances for now. I started w/ Piped but the buffer speed was lacking for most of the instances I used. Switched to Invidious and the buffer speed as amazing, albeit a lot more error messages that Google is blocking an instance temporariliy

I agree.

This thread is the first time I’ve been embarrassed to be a part of the fediverse. This thread shows a lot of nihilistic people who don’t actually follow politics well enough to have views based in reality. People reference the railroad situation without understanding the resolution and reference student debt and other areas as if Biden had full control of the house/senate.

It really is the left’s version of Trump supporters in that they revel in their ignorance, wear it as a badge and then encourage others to follow the same path. At least Trump supporters have the decency to encourage their contemporaries to vote in elections smh.

Historically, the guy that fought against apartheid is unlikely to commit genocide.

There’s no definitive ‘ever’ in anything though. History has a few democratically-elected populist-turned-dictators if memory serves me right

I understand your frustration but also encourage you to pay more attention to what happens behind the scenes. Your position on the railroad strike is outdated/misinformed relative to what happened a month ago:

When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave

In other words, Biden instructed his administration to double back and force the hand of the railroad companies to get the union exactly what they wanted.

I personally think it’s a bad idea, but I will try to judge the action instead of the person given how dedicated he likely is to the fediverse in general

I was able to follow my bookworym account on mastodon, but not sure how to use my existing accounts w/i bookwyrm. I think the functionality doesn’t translate well to other fediverse products w/ different setups… kinda like trying to interact w/ tweets (posts?) via lemmy

That is good to know. That doesn’t negate the fact that this is the same company:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/app-developers-sue-facebook-over-alleged-anticompetitive-scheme-n1117551