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Well, fuck. It was fun while it lasted.

halm,
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I used to have an old laptop stuck in a corner just running Transmission. I called that Seed because that was its sole purpose. Its replacement is fully automated *arr and media server, making it both seed and vault, so I had to call it Spitsbergen (reference)

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NB, Tardis Wiki has regenerated 😄

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“BULGALIA” 🤣

And it’s pretty clear they first wrote “CEECH” then thought, ‘No wait, that’s not right,’ and made it “CIECH” instead…

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Oh, are you Narwish, Swodish or Dentist?

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I’ve been eyeing it for a while, it looks quite mature for an alpha project, and it’s really charmingly presented.

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I’m sympathetic to a lot of Balkan’s points but somehow everything he’s involved in is overshadowed by his belligerent online persona. Stop picking fights, dude, and get shit done instead.

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Friends? More like feudal lords picking and choosing which projects they can benefit from supporting.

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Non-paywalled archive.is link

Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?

I’ve explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can’t help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...

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Sounds like a bit of a Swiss army knife for the fediverse. This kind of thing may take off with developers but I’m uncertain what regular selfhosters need it for.

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Given that you’ll want to save details for your launch, I understand why you can’t give too much away but… could you give a hint at how your project aims to innovate?

Is it completely outside the known social media paradigms (microblogging, communities, review sites, etc), does it spin or combine them in novel ways, or “just” add original features to one or more of the existing models?

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I think the open data projects have a fair potential for innovation. They need some kind of backbone for permanence which would need widespread federation, but they’re a conceptually interesting addition to the Fediverse.

Edit: spelling (“to”, not “YO!”)

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If you want to scale way down, Sabre develops the very lightweight Baïkal. I’ve been using it for a couple of years, and it’s worked without a hitch. Just sits there and does its thing.

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Completely agree about Nextcloud. The project rose to fame on selfhosters beta testing it, then buddied up to enterprise users and ditched the initial user base.

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Ooh, good one! I’ll try to stick to the very basics that I’ve installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.

  • MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
  • DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
  • ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
  • Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
  • KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
  • Fossify apps. There’s a whole suite but I only use
    • Fossify calendar,
    • Fossify contacts,
    • Fossify SMS messenger.
  • Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
  • K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
  • Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
  • Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it’s called “Pro”, it’s not like there’s a paid tier)
  • Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn’t on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.

Edited to add:

  • NewPipe! — third party YouTube player that puts a stick in Google’s tracking and profiling.

Additional repositories

F-droid is great and all but its best feature really is that you can add other app repositories alongside the flagship one. IMO you absolutely need to add the following repos for the best selection (ie., adapted to my list above 😉)

Suggestions for more repos?

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That would be in your phone main settings I guess, and specific to your device? In no Android stock or custom ROM I’ve used have I seen a “photos button (bottom right)”.

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Oh, good catch! They have their own repository that can easily be added to the F-droid app. I think repos deserve special mention, editing my op.

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Hmmm, so DivestOS supports bootloader relocking, huh? I’ll have to give that a look.

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It’s a …social workspace? It feels a bit icky though, like being teenage peer pressured to go to a mall. Just a little too consumery.

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Yeah, I’m not clicking a Screen Rants link but “Jelly Breens” is a quality pun!

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Fair point and while I don’t want to sidetrack from it — how much is the Fediverse’s energy usage compared to those of AI services or cryptocurrency farms?

I’m all for scaling down our resource consumption and finding environmentally friendly alternatives, but it has to be across the board. It’s no use that a small segment minimise their expenditure if the biggest culprits continue and expand their exploitative behaviour.

halm,
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That’s my intuition too. Would like to see sources to back it up though.

halm,
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👍 That confirms my own assumptions, thanks for the link and estimated comparison!

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No, I agree. It’s not about waiting out the bigger players. It’s making sure that everybody does their part!

The fediverse has its footprint for sure and it’s great that we pull together to minimise that. I just want to put it in perspective at the same time and point out that federated services aren’t the only, or even biggest offenders here.

Many of the hotshot technologies — cryptocurrencies a few years back, this season it’s “AI” — get launched without a thought of their environmental impacts, at a time where basically every MWh counts. I want to help with my fedi usage, but I also want that to be reflected in idiots’ bitcoin mining or GPT generated “content”.

There has to be proportional balance.

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I think you should’ve stuck with the bottom tier.

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