Lay the ground for a national strike…… In 2028. Kind of an important detail to leave out of the headline.

I’m all for a national strike, but we really can’t wait that long.

As opposed to a corperate social media site, Lemmy has waaaay lower operating costs (not servers). It’s open source so dev work is volunteer, and there isn’t a bunch of resources dedicated to squeezing users for every penny or appeasing advertisers.

Servers can get pricey for sure, but not having all of that other overhead goes a ways to making it more sustainable.

Just because BlueSky isn’t federated doesn’t mean it’s (totally) centralized. It uses the AT protocol which means user data lives in a separate place than the app itself. While the BlueSky app is centralized all the user data (your posts, likes, etc) live in a separate place and can be self-hosted. This means that if BlueSky went bust or something, users could easily just move to a new platform that someone would inevitably create and all of their data, likes, follows would all be there.

It's been about 3 weeks. Yeah that makes sense, I do feel like I've noticed that while my speed test results are not changing as fast, my ability to actually do stuff has been getting better.

Thanks! Interesting, if I can get better-categorized releases that would for sure be a plus. And I'm always happy to have faster downloads!

Okay I'm trying out seafile and it seems awesome, so maybe that will be the way to go.

It stores them in a custom format in blocks, which is the only real downside because that means it can't interop with things like FTP or SMB

Huh yeah that's not a bad idea. I actually sort of dislike the nextcloud client normally (as I'd prefer it to not actually download the remote files, but act like a virtual filesystem). But in this case, it might actually work...

Haha I'm totally fine with that, honestly for me it's a part of the hobby I enjoy!

Interesting, faster downloads would for sure be a plus as you're right that sometimes you get stuck with something crazy slow using torrents

Thanks! I already use NextCloud and quite like it! Hover, I find their file upload feature to be lacking for this use-case. Sadly, it crashes/freezes the browser when I try to upload a folder with a lot of files (which is the main thing I'll need to do with this)

How do you manage your services on that, docker compose files? I'm really trying to get away from the workflow of clicking around in some UI to configure everything, only for it to glitch out and disappear and I have to try and remember what things to click to get it back. It was my main problem with portainer that caused me to move away from it (I have separate issues with docker-compose but that's another thing)

It's not really the workflow I was imagining for this, but it might actually not be a bad idea. It might be a bit weird to use, but if I setup a "drop folder" on his machine that he could plop folders/files into then maybe it could work. Thanks!

Are you located in the EU or in California? If so you are covered by super strong privacy laws that can help with this.

Miso soup is my go-to breakfast. You can get dashi powder and miso paste, then just heat water in the kettle and combine. I love that it’s warm and flavorful, but actually a pretty light breakfast (which I prefer).

I didn’t mean to criticize the effort, sorry if it came across that way. I meant to criticize the article for leaving that out of the headline.

While I believe and wish it would happen sooner, my intention wasn’t to bash on the great work they’re doing.

Yeah, honestly that’s the main blocker for me. For all of the hate it gets, I had the YouTube algorithm pretty well-tuned to what I liked.

Wish there was something like freetube that would still preserve views/ suggestions.

Haha yeah true, but it does come with the advantage that it's super prevalent and so has a lot of tools and docs. Nearly every self-hosted service I use has a docs page for how to set it up with Kubernetes. (Although it's not nearly as prevalent as plain docker)

Same, privacy concerns are huge for me. Also, there’s no way I’m paying $18.99 a month for it, that’s comically expensive. It’s the same as Netflix’s top tier plan, and at least Netflix has the expense of producing their own content to (attempt) to justify that cost.

Thanks, I think those early speed gains were exciting so I wanted to keep that up but it's not totally realistic. Doing day-to-day stuff and building speed over time makes sense though.

This sort of thing works fine for me, but falls apart a bit with non-technical users (aka my family). Even syncthing is actually pretty difficult to use IMO (compared to google drive or the like). I’d have to manually setup and maintain this on all their devices basically