I’m using Voyager. It’s amazing that we have choices.

Reddit and Facebook’s interfaces aren’t any better than anything we’re using, and they’re full of sponsored content.

Thanks for your productive and insightful waste of everyone’s time contribution.

The UI’s aren’t that bad. They’re replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they’re replicating them so closely they’re probably open for lawsuit :)

Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.

If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.

I dream a lot about car related stuff. Accidents, getting lost, losing the car.

I don’t ever have any of that happen IRL.

But yeah, never my phone, maybe once or twice a pc

i really don’t want to run my own email

I’ve done it before, professionally and personally, but I don’t ‘think’ I want to do it again. But I also know that once it’s set up, you can mostly forget about it other than maybe managing DKIM reports.

I think it’s still probably prudent, at a minimum to pay for someone else who manages traffic relationships to handle upstream SMTP. You’re already sending that out in the clear, everyone you’re emailing is already mining and selling that data, there is no advantage to privacy there.

TikTok doesn’t have any worse misinformation and disinformation issues than YouTube and Facebook. And The latest policy changes in Facebook indicate they’re going to go squarely into misinformation without any fact checking.

Disinformation is an excuse to ban the platform. Zuckerberg has been lobbying Congress for a long time to ban them while pushing his platform to be able to do exactly what he claims they’re doing.

There’s a lot of reasons to hate TikTok, but this disinformation stuff is nothing but red herring to get them banned because they’re competition.

To be honest, many of not most CEOs probably privately think that way because it’s advantageous to their business. It’s a product of how the government is owned by the corporations. We all hate it but it’s simply The current state of affairs. It’s literally his job not to let it out into public that he feels that way.

participation by both the sender and the receiver in order to take place. are you saying that if everything you tell someone is dismissed as “fake news” and ignored, then it’s your fa

How in the hell did you get that as a take away from what I said?

Anyone who had any other understanding has failed to communicate with the American public.

Their servers aren’t open source, and they’re full of my data.

Their mail service by necessity is going to collect data on me.

They’re going to have DNS on their VPN side. How do I know the VPNs aren’t logging me.

They have given up data on people before which makes me rather certain they’re logging.

Android SMS and mail apps are open source too right?

Tell me you haven’t worked in a large private company without telling me you haven’t worked in a large private company.

Hardly anyone ever says mysql is better. Postgres has a lot of nice features, But they’re still a hell of a lot more people out there with mySQL experience.

If for some reason you really want to go mysql I would urge you to look into percona and percona tools. It’s incredibly fast super optimized. The tools let you do backups that my sequel could only dream of.

That said, if you don’t have any strong needs for mySQL, and you don’t have any experience with it I would probably start picking up postgres.

yeah, totally still on the market, but that’s a move I don’t want to make twice in a row :)

This whole OH BTW, this service that looked trustworthy is run by an asshole has me considering self-hosting.

headscale, I won’t even surface stuff I don’t want absolutely public. I’d probably have to do my DNS, smtp, video and image hosting public. Everything else can be extended over private networking to all my devices without giving anyone outside any access.

I’m capable of hosting my own mail, not sure I’m willing. I need my email to be reliable, but I don’t need it to be fancy. I don’t need a web interface. just Postfix, OpenDKIM, openDMARC, let’s encrypt and POP3/IMAP, DNS and maybe spamassassin.

Nextcloud, base filestore, contacts, calendar, syncs with android. Honestly as a drive replacement, Nextcloud is slow as balls and wants to injest my FS data into a data/meta base . I’d probably use Synching and just go full-ass Dropbox style on my storage.

Vaultwarden, 2fa, password storage, I’m perfectly happy with Bitwarden, but if I’m going to have personal servers, monitoring and alarms, let’s go whole hog

2nd copy of Vaultwarden, this one is public-facing and is just there for Vaultwarden to send.

gluetun, maybe. Could pair it with any generic provider like PIA. This would be mainly for torrents.

Peertube, public, but unfederated. Host my own random videos for links to the fam.

Immich, same but for pictures

matrix, would be nice to have my own branded chat, though signal is still damn good. but if something ever happens to it…

gather all logs together in ELK

Monitor with Graphana and Uptime Kuma.

Alerts via ntfy

Backups would script app shutdown, db export and turn the services back up. Syncthing would go encrypted directly back to my house.

Do all these in docker. Stand up two cheap boxes in Hetzner or something, Run K8S so if something explodes it would just come back up.

It just kept me from transferring my google crap to them. Time to search out alternatives

So literally one guy can change your entire network lifestyle?

Seriously? You’re going to question people on loyalty when they find out the person in charge of not selling their data to the highest bidder is an oligarch wanna-be?

Hell yes. If you give me red flags in how a company I need to ultimately trust is run/staffed, I will find a better solution.

maybe the guy is a jerk, maybe an not-thought-out post, idk.

The guy in charge of the direction of their company and who directly influences their security and secures your data can’t restrain himself on the public sufficiently to appear trustworthy to 50+ % of the population.

There are, of course, exceptions, but usually, when someone of that demeanor and lacking restraint makes it to that position, they end up fucking over their company. And since they’re in charge of protecting your data, you should actually think twice about giving them your trust.

Troll Juice I think…

Oh God, wait for the downvotes…

Seriously, this is the reason I started using Brave.