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shaked_coffee

@ shaked_coffee @feddit.it

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  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • I guess that with discord (and many other non-foss free projects) the problem is that they start as free and then wanted to start to make money at a later stage.

    For-profit software and companies are not necessarily bad, but they are bad when they take their existing software and start radically changing it for the sake of making more money.

    If for example discord always had some features just for Nitro users and others for everyone, and those features (and the nitro price) would have always stayed the same it would have been much better

  • The Authy Flatpak worked by running the Snap inside

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  • Ahahah sorry, I know what Authy is.

    Mine wanted to be a way to say that after I discovered Ente Authenticator (the link I attached), which is another 2FA app that keeps an encrypted backup of your codes and lets you access them on multiple platforms and it's foss, I "almost forgot about Authy" since Ente Auth replaced it perfectly for my use case.

    I thought that since is not a very famous project others could have found it useful

  • The Authy Flatpak worked by running the Snap inside

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  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • What do you mean with proprietary? 'Cause atproto is foss, but yeah atm Bluesky kinda controls it (even if in the interview she said they would like to move it to a third party regulator in the future)

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • Well, if what she says in the interview is the truth they don't plan to make money with ads, but with a cut on their marketplace of algorithms &co + with custom handles (aka custom domains)

    So yeah, maybe it will not end up like Twitter

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • Agree. The episode partially answers some of those questions (of course with a biased answer, since it's given by their CEO), but I guess that for most of them we'll just have to wait and see

  • Che ne pensate di Bluesky?

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  • Grazie! Mi ero perso la discussione su Feddit e ovviamente anche quella su Bluesky visto che risale a prima del mio arrivo. Le recupero volentieri

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • From what she said, ActivityPub could have adapted to what they wanted, but probably don't want to. On Bluesky you kinda loose the community feel of your instance that you have and that many people (me included) like.

    I elaborated more on the "problems" she listed in another comment here if you want to read more without listening the episode

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • She was saying that on Mastodon (that was the main activitypub platform she was comparing to) the choice of the instance can heavily influence your experience. If I don't remember wrong her main points were:

    • There's a local timeline and a federated timeline, and even in the federated timeline you see your instance posts and the posts of the instances yours have federated with, not all posts
    • A global search is not always the easiest thing to do, and previous attempts of project that would have facilitated it didn't received much appreciation from the community
    • If your instance admin do choices you don't agree with (for example blocking another instance) the only way to interact with that other instance is to move yourself
    • Moving from an instance to another means loosing your posts and replies, that would stay on the original instance

    She was not saying that this approach is wrong, in fact many people on Mastodon like this more community-focused and less-global approach, just that it isn't what they wanted for Bluesky

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • And yet, here we are with another conversation about something in the wrong place.

    Well, this is is a place to talk about fediverse and ActivityPub, and mine wanted to be the starting point for a discussion about the two protocols and how they compare with each other, if it was actually worth it to create a new protocol or not etc.

    I was not pretending that Bluesky is better than the Fediverse, it's just different and I'm convinced that discussing about how others do stuff can benefit the Fediverse too.

    BlueSky and their illusion of federation, what's to talk about? Anyone can host a server, but all posts need to be indexed by the server of which they're in charge of otherwise they don't appear in anyone's timelines?

    As for this, it was my main perplexity after I listened the podcast since they didn't really entered into the details of how the "multiple servers, one timeline" work. Do you by chance have any resource/link I could read to learn more about that and clarify my doubts?

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • That's almost exactly what I was thinking before listening to the podcast.

    But there she explained how ActivityPub was missing some of the feature they wanted because of its instance-centric approach and how trying to change that would have been hard (given how sceptical towards changes and everything corporate-related the fediverse community can be), and so they opted for a new protocol since the goals of the two project were with different aims.

    Still not 100% convinced tbh, but I can't deny she has a point...

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • Even if the corporate is a public benefit corporation with open source foss code both for server and client?

  • Offline alternatives to Roku / Streaming boxes

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  • It can be a bit overkill for your use case if you only need to stream the USB media on your tv, but take a look at Jellyfin, it's a program you can install on any PC and as long as this is up and running on the same network you can access your media on that PC (in your case with the USB plugged in) from any other device (TV, other PCs, Tablets, smartphones)

  • Should I learn Docker or Podman?

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  • Still haven't looked into podman properly, but docker is much easier to learn because as you said there's a lot more material available online. I'd say start with Docker, and if in the future you will find out podman better fits your needs you can always switch (they should not be that different)

  • Beyond Discord

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  • Matrix is a communication protocol, such as IMAP+SMTP communication protocols that are behind emails. This means that the "communication stack" when you use Matrix, as well as when you use emails, can be summarized in 3 parts:

    • the client (the app you use to chat, such as Apple Mail or Outlook for emails, Element or FluffyChat for Matrix)
    • the provider (who is offering you the service, such as gmail.com or yahoo.com for email, matrix.org or chat.mozilla.com for Matrix)
    • the server (the app that your provider runs to let you chat, for emails all most famous providers have their own proprietary servers, for Matrix the two main options for server are Synapse or Dendrite)

    I haven't read the article properly yet, but from what I've understand for now it seems Commune.sh aims to build a new client for Matrix that reproduces the layout and features of Discord, while at the same time being based on an open communication protocol and therefore having all its related benefits.

    Seems pretty promising, I'm gonna keep an eye of it 👀

  • [SOLVED] Temporarily hosting on Oracle Free tier.

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  • Ahah dw, it happened to me as well and to be fair the OCI UI for opening ports is not the most intuitive piece of software I've seen...

  • Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why?

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  • Currently using Infomaniak.com and I'm really liking it. They are a bit pricy compared to other registrars but

    • they have solid privacy policy
    • their servers use renewable energy
    • they let you set up DDNS with a simple bash script
    • they offer some cool email and kSuite benefits with the purchase of a domain

  • [SOLVED] Temporarily hosting on Oracle Free tier.

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  • Not an exper either, but I've used OCI Free Tier for a while and most of the times I was encountering issues they were related either to the fact it was ARM and not x86_64 (most tutorials and guides are not written with ARM CPUs in mind) or to the sort of Firewall built in the Oracle Cloud Platform. Have you already checked if the ports required for the services not working are opened correctly?

  • Ukrainian digital ID app Diia goes open-source

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