Gonna say it aloud for the unweaned masses in the back.

The main problematic issue with most “we need an alternative for Yplatform in the Fediverse!” speech is the use of the singular. We are never going to get a good thing going if we push for “everything-app” platforms because they’ll be everything-apps, and the push of power is irresistible. Also, everything apps are much harder to develop for the same base feature set (“share a message” is easy in text, quadratically much harder on video), which is why VC-funded capital can do it.

We have to accept that what we need is alternatives, plural, to the various things that Discord and other platforms centralize. Because half the point here is we are against centralization. And allowing each project to focus on each problem separately allows them to take advantage of their own strengths, up to and including funding and provisioning (“get storage for a million items” is trivial on text; quadratically much harder on video).

We need a text messaging platform? XMPP already exists. Let’s go help.

We need audio chats? Mumble already exists. Let’s go help.

We need instant notifications? Surely something already exists. Let’s go help.

We don’t need “a walled garden but on the Fediverse”.

AWS going down

Now that would be the news. Statistically unique event hitting a specific group of people disliked by corporate? Defo would sound suspicious if you ask me.

OTOOH, “one of the only two pending storages of a project goes down that, by sheer density of the corporate users list, should have at least eight storages made available” sounds like a weird… secondhand schadenfraude, to call it somewhat.

Exactly!

people act entitled as if all that you mention was trivial and that somehow FOSS devs “owe” people, but we only see those big corpos make it happen because… well, they’re big corpos, burning VC money on makint it happen and making it happen in a controlled jail.

Oooh!

If it wasn’t closed-source I’d actually recommend Teamspeak for that use case. Elsewise, of the ones I’ve known personally the stablest would be Mumble, but the problem is the clients.

It’s also important to recall that if we want to look for alternatives we have to be very willing to look for stuff that’s not Discord 1:1 because otherwise what would be the point. Plus, it’s unfair of us to ask full equivalence from hobbyist developers to match what a corporation that is selling our data to ensure cash flow can do.

Not sufficient as in not sufficiently light? IRC (eg.: ngircd) is even lighter!

You mean to say XMPP (eg.: Snikket + Conversations), right?

To my not up-to-date knowledge (2021-ish) audio calls work but they require an extension (on both participants) and are limited to 1:1, no “audio conference” support.

I do think there’s bridging for Mumble? If so that should at least cover the “audio chat” use case.

Good luck! Report results.

XMPP aka Jabber.

Geez, I was willing to bet some coins that this was about cryptography either.

Honestly it could be worse. Moving from Xitter to Bullshitsky is at least taking some (temporary) steps of progress towards moving to the Fediverse.

The trick is to support them to do more than that before the cycle repeats.

Finally,

Fediverse Keyparties

(like back in the '80s)

Hmm it’s fortunate that this only applies to the sidebars, but that also makes me highly question that it is

very much unintentional

given it happens only there and not everywhere.

I unfortunately have worked with programming filters before (paid for it; still not worth it). The first thing you test about a filter in a development environment is that it filters out what you want. The second thing you test about a filter in a development environment is that it does not filter out what you don’t want. All that comes long before pushing to production (let alone on a Friday). That sounds like at least negligence, so it’s debatable if it’s actually unintentional.

Regarding an issue filed for this… well, issue, I can’t find any. Can’t file one either, since I don’t use a Microslop account anylonger. Kudos to whoever files the issue.

So, can’t even speak about a given community (just because they live in a certain instance) without getting blocked? Well now that’s censorship if I’ve ever seen any.

What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse.

Wouldn’t this require a keyserver anyway, GPG-style, since you need to have a means to guarantee that services all around can see your public key?

Nothing (well maaaaaaybe IRC) beats XMPP / Jabber when it comes to installing for small institutional needs. There are pretty good servers around, such as Prosody.

It’s pretty great, and I like that the workflow for creating containers is sliiiightly easier than on Docker. I switched from Docker to Podman for most stuff about a year ago and so far there are only two hiccups that I lament:

• the higher disk consumption due to not being able to share image storage. (I’ve tried with additionalstorages but that seems to only be respected for podman run; podman build and podman compose seem to ignore it and always pull images from the registries)

• Some annoying isses with fule permissions due to rootless design - running rootless containers will create files under your user storage that you as a user have no permission to transfer or remove for cleanup or security, and severely breaks the output of tools like du or find due to error spammage.

There’s a lot of things to hate in the world – it’s the mark of wanting to make it better. If you are defined by thinking that hating Reddit is significant, you need a hobby.

If the only thing you need is not even the whole Office suite but just a Word processor (and not even any particular version) and since you’ll be remoting to it for the graphical access, you don’t need to spin up a whole Windows VM for that. You can just spin up something with Wine and install the Word component from Office 2013 on that (I’d say Office 2013 at most; you might be able to get away with Office 2007 but I wouldn’t recommend it).

uses regex to parse HTML

I see we are having fun these places!