hendrik

Yeah, information wants to be free. I’d say we just do away with copyright /s

Or I could try training AI as well once this is settled. Of course I’d need to get a few big harddrives to store a few books, audiobooks, music, Netflix series… Or is this just a perk for big and greedy companies?

Is this a new thing? I thought that’s how companies like Google and Meta operate for the last 10 years or so, minus a few poor people in underprivileged countries who have to sort the really bad stuff…

Kdeconnect. Alternatively NextCloud or sending an email to myself.

Seems they’re introducing lots of errors lately… First Pixelfed, now entire Linux…

Last time I checked, yunohost.org worked well. It either has the services you’re interested in, or it doesn’t… But it’s really easy to get it running. Docker containers also usually work well. Though, you need some amount of technical knowledge. And I’d recommend to use something like docker-compose and not do everything manually… If you’re a beginner, maybe just try YunoHost.

You nailed it.

And if someone wants to install lots of random stuff, there’s always: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

I’ve had the file system permissions wrong and that lead to all kinds of unrelated issues. But yeah the number of users and incoming posts are supposed to not increase unless you subscribe to users. Just adding instance URLs doesn’t do anything. And it seems to federate new posts only, not the entire history of a user.

I’m just flabbergasted by the fact that Email is now like 40+ years old(!) and nobody ever invented a worthy successor that saw some adoption. And we all know mail has some severe issues.

I also think it should be combined with messaging. But I mainly need it to be electronic letters. I want my bank statements, bills etc in that format. And be able to contact any business with it. Plus friends and family, the government etc and use it to coordinate things at work. And I think the internet made some advances since the 80s. We could include multimedia, sending large files, exchanging instant messages and maybe make it an identity provider so we also solve authentication, passwords and age verification on the internet. All of that isn’t really hard and there is quite some demand for all of these issues being addressed by one uniform solution that is actually out there and usable.

But it seems to me not even the technology has been drafted/designed yet. So surely it can’t be adopted when it doesn’t even exist (yet).

Stupid article never even links the source. I believe this is it: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2025/01/28/0083/01166.html#ing

You’re right. I finished reading their website only after commenting. Guess I’m not their target audience then. I prefer doing encryption on my device, as most of my regular mails come in unsecure and unencrypted anyways. And I guess we’d have to replace email in it’s entirety with a more modern protocol to make it secure and usable. I mean my bank, internet service provider and almost everyone stopped sending me invoices, bills etc via mail already years ago. And it’s not like they offer to do it via Tuta secure mail… So I guess all of these services are niche and limited by the trade-offs they need to invent.

Ah, alright. I was more thinking of getting a paid subscription anyways. At least the lower tier for 36€ a year seems fair. Though I wish they also offered chat and a few other services as well. Btw, if you’re technically inclined… There are tools like imapsync which do this for any mail provider. Or with Evolution or Thunderbird as a mail client, I believe you can just select all your mails and drag and drop them into a different mailbox. That should get it done as well. (Edit: No IMAP)

Tuta Mail plus Mullvad?

I don’t think it’s quite end stage yet. There is still some room left to become worse. Some freedoms left and some money in the pockets of regular people.

It’s nice to see. I’d compare it to back when Lemmy was in the same situation and tens of thousands of users came from Reddit to Lemmy over night.

Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can’t be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!

Hmmh. I believe the main reason why we don’t have them is that the main developers didn’t like gamification. So they skipped all of that. And they don’t view this platform as a 1:1 clone of Reddit. And I mean ultimately all these awards and similar concepts on Discord etc are meant to make the users spend money. Other things are made to get people hooked, because they can brag with karma, awards etc and they’ll spend more time on the platform. That’s all good if you’re trying to make lots of money, but not necessarily healthy for the users or the atmosphere on the platform. But it’s complicated. Not everything is bad, either.

I’d like emoji reactions for example. That’d be practically the same thing… You could - instead of just up-/downvote, add a picture reaction to a comment or post - could be a medal or whatever. Some other Fediverse platforms have that kind of stuff.

(And btw: Lots of people here also donate time to moderate, foster communities, write program code, donate to the project, or are just particularly nice to people, so it needs to factor in lots of other things as well, next to money donations to the instance admins.)

You can put an emoji into your username. Or inside of a comment…

Sure. I just think at that point it’s no longer a “alternative to YouTube” since YT works a certain way and this changes quite a lot about the dynamics. It’d be more an alternative to something else, just not YouTube.

Yeah, I don’t think so either. For lots of creators, YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue with their videos. And the audience comes to watch their videos. So unless we introduce lots of ads to PeerTube and pay the creators, it won’t become an alternative to Youtube (in specific).

I think Peertube will stay it’s own thing and not become a clone of Youtube. And as such it’ll always target a different audience and have different content available. So it can’t really become an “alternative”.

I think it’s mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That’s already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.