I've been self-hosting e-mail for over 15 years and hope to continue doing so. Although it's being made increasingly difficult by big tech players. I wrote about it here: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/rant-against-centralising-e-mail/

I'd go for Alpine Linux in such case.

Yep, people are enthusiastic about self hosting and like talking about what they host :)

A pinephone with postmarketOS and sxmo

Suggestion: Globe in the center and a circle of lemmings (like from the classical game) holding hands all along the circumference?

Let's not downvote the poor guy just because we lost him to Apple. The comment is on topic and people are allowed to make different choices/mistakes 😉

I've been using RSS feeds for youtube channels for a few years. I don't visit the site if I can help it, I don't login, I don't "like & subscribe", I don't see any clickbait thumbnails and most important: I don't see any ads. Just newsboat & mpv.

Nice to see even this community replicated from reddit, but of course replication is what bobs do best!

I'll interpret non-US a bit broader as non-English. English is hugely dominant in scifi so it's often hard to find good books in other languages. I'd also love to hear the recommendations of others too! A few I read:

• (German)
  • "Die Welten der Skiir" trilogy (by Dirk van den Boom): https://bookwyrm.social/book/593373/s/die-welten-der-skiir-1 is really great . He also wrote another trilogy (Die Reise der Scythe) which is also quite nice.
  • "3517 Anno Domini: Wir waren Götter" by Raik Thorstad. Note that his is a primarily an M/M romance, but it has a nice dystopian scifi setting.
• (Spanish)
  • "En un lugar llamado tierra" - I read this long ago, don't remember much: https://bookwyrm.social/book/979935/s/en-un-lugar-llamado-tierra
  • La señal - https://bookwyrm.social/book/979918/s/la-senal
• (French) The works by Jules Verne should probably be mentioned here, despite being written well a century ago. "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers", as already mentioned in another comment, is a must-read classic.
  • "Helstrid" - I have this one on my e-reader for a while but haven't properly started it yet: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1289177/s/helstrid , so I can't say if it's any good.
• (Dutch) Long ago as a teen I once read "Coriolis, de stormplaneet" and liked it: https://bookwyrm.social/book/979934/s/coriolis-de-stormplaneet

I'm definitely not going back to Reddit.

Same as some of the replies: I find I'm posting more now on Lemmy whereas on Reddit I was only passively scrolling most of the time, but here I feel more of an urge to contribute and make the fediverse a success.

So thus far not a productivity improvement yet, unless you count contributing to Lemmy as being productive.

• SourceHut as an alternative git foundry, https://sr.ht
• Any HedgeDoc deployment , like https://pad.nixnet.services/
• Any jitsi meet deployment, like https://meet.jit.si/
• KeyOxide for online identity verification (using gpg), https://keyoxide.org/
• PlantUML for drawing all kinds of diagrams based on formal text descriptions (online version: https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/, but mainly just an offline tool). I'd encourage people not to use online services for everything but simply rely on good tools.
• Freesound.org (https//freesound.org) for sound fragments
  • TrekCore.com for Star Trek sounds ;) https://www.trekcore.com/audio/
• Bookwyrm as a fediverse alternative for sites like goodreads (tracking and reviewing books): https://bookwyrm.social/
• Fotostrips.nl if you're dutch and like comics

And in general I'd wish more people would use RSS (and more sites would prominently offer it) to aggregate things like news.

A developer of sxmo reached out to me, with posh working maybe sxmo next??? please comment if there is demand for this.

Another sxmo developer here: I'm definitely interested in acquiring a fairphone now thanks to the work you've put in, and of course on running sxmo on it then. We're already merged a device profile for fp6 in our codebase: https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-devel/patches/71431 and one of our developers is having success with it already. We're typically running things a bit more bare-bones than other UIs; no systemd (but openrc), but I don't think there's much particular work on your end to do to support sxmo, right? The really difficult work is in the kernel patches of course and that is shared anyway.

Very nice one! I like the hand behind the head. Poor Sisyphus, his life's purpose's gone!

Nice, RSS is great indeed. I use it extensively as well, but I didn't even realize it was a thing people ran as a service on a server. I hadn't heard of FreshRSS etc. I personally just run newsboat from my desktop/laptop, even my phone if need be.

When I am sending? Well, once things are set up properly I'm pretty confident that things arrive (though nobody can ever be 100% sure of course). I also tend to mail to the same recipient domains a lot, like for work and hobby projects, so once those are tested you get pretty confident.

Unnoticed downtime is usually quickly noticed, I depend on my server for a lot of things. Senders are often resilient enough to keep things in their queue and try a few times. There's also a fallback MX registry at my (3rd party) DNS host which will queue stuff in case the primary MX goes down.

I'm not much of a distro-hopper. I think I've been on just four distros on my daily-driving desktop & laptop since about 1999:

• RedHat (around 1999, starting with 6.0)
• Mandrake (around 2001?)
• Ubuntu (around 2006)
• Arch Linux (around 2012 - today), and no intention to hop. In fact, I recently bought a new PC and installed Arch again. On the previous machine, I installed it once and it rolled nicely its entire lifetime.

My personal server has been running Ubuntu LTS for ages, I might have run debian a long time ago, but I'm not sure anymore. Nowadays I run a container setup, and those are running on Alpine Linux.

• Arch Linux on desktop and laptop
• Ubuntu on server, with containers running mostly Alpine Linux
• postmarketOS (Alpine Linux based) on mobile phone (pinephone)

I'm on Hyprland (wayland compositer, wl-roots based). Prior to the wayland transition I was on dwm. Hyprland offers a dynamic tiling layout just like dwm, which was my main selling point. The dev is very active and hyprland is gaining maturity rapidly (more than alternatives like dwl or river did at the time I checked it out). I also tried i3 and sway, but they don't quite cut it for me as they don't do dynamic tiling out of the box.

Really? Nice! Did you mean to post a picture, I'm not seeing it?

I guess so yeah, but now I see her! Very cute kooikerhondje indeed!