It notes that Bluesky users will be able to participate in the global conversation, instead of the one dictated by the community they join, as aspects of how your experience differs from others is in your control thanks to other features, like custom feeds and composable moderation. The latter means moderation is not tied to your server. While server operators can set rules around the content they host, communities can use blocklists and soon, independent moderation services, to introduce additional layers of moderation. That means there’s not as much pressure on server operaters to block other servers (defederate) because of the content they host, since users will have their own tools to manage their moderation preferences.

This is a nice bit of tech.

If you can get away with a non North American number, most countries will give you a SIM for free or next to nothing and you pay only once for pre-paid service, no monthly fee.

This might be what you’re looking for https://lemux.minnix.dev/post/157074

https://github.com/joplin-vieweb/joplin-vieweb

I don’t think I would ever be in favor of activity that leads to further centralization. I don’t disagree that fragmentation can make things somewhat confusing for new users, but there are some advantages as well. I like to post to smaller communities for the most part rather than the larger ml and world domains. The responses are more focused on the topic at hand, the communities are usually less hostile and hive-minded, and having all discussions on a just a few big servers leads to a the problem of having all of your eggs in one basket (ie. discussions and accounts disappearing when these servers can’t maintain server costs, the admins move on to other projects, or just poor maintenance practices.) To me it is worth the effort to cross-post and seek out other communities to find interesting content.

I will have to try out some flask apps. I like the ease of use they seem to have

That’s interesting. So you would need to install flask as well I presume, right? Or does the script pull that in?

I guess I don’t understand what is supposed to be serving the webapp to your client (browser) then without something like nginx or apache. I run searxng as well but I wouldn’t be able to access it, even on localhost, without a web server.

What are you using for the web server? There should be logs somewhere

!sbcs@lemux.minnix.dev would appreciate this.

I’m glad I’m not the only one then. 19.1 here

This is what happened with Google and XMPP

Letterboxd but self-hosted and federated!

This is my dream app.

I agree it sucks but at least you have that option considering the nature of the Lemmy project.

Upload limits depend on the instance. I would have suggested PT if you wanna self host, or the other two you mentioned if you just want to sign on. Promoting then so that people will watch them is probably the hardest part unless you wanna pay for promotion.

What’s stopping your own home instance from doing the same?

There is none, except for server mirrors. But most admins don’t bother with that. The ultimate solution is to host your own instance. You can do that because the source is available.

But what’s the solution to investors dumping reddit, Elon running X into the ground, etc? Not only is there not one, but Reddit hasn’t been open source for years, and the only thing that’s been opened with X is its recommendation algorithm.

I have been running my own PT instance for about 3 years now. I only post videos of things that interest me, plus a videocast of a The Linux Lugcast podcast we do. I don’t post video after video like that. It’s very sporadic. PT is not YouTube, you will not find that level of engagement. If you are looking for lots of eyes on your content, PT is not the route to take. If you are interested in federation and want to move away from centralized platforms, it is good for that.

You didn’t mention if you were joining an existing instance or hosting your own. That will determine whether your current PC is adequate or not.

Honestly writefreely can be as elaborate as you want it to be if you self-host it. There are lots of options under the hood as well as the CSS being fully customizable. I host my own with a single core, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage and even that is overkill as pictures and videos are just embeds from other platforms. Plume is deprecated, and micro.blog is paid and not self-hostable. There is microblog.pub though which I haven’t tried yet but looks promising.