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  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • I need to figure this out for my wife, she got one recently and I've been dabbling with different services but haven't hooked the thing up to anything yet. Right now I've got Shelfmark and Booklore running which seem like they'll do the job just fine, but need to explore some more

  • Discord keeps walking into rakes, but TeamSpeak is thriving after 'incredible surge of new users'

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  • Yeah honestly. Like I work in IT, have my own home server, run linux on everything, etc etc etc, but even I found Matrix to be a convoluted mess, and most clients have their own issues. I can't imagine trying to get someone who's not tech-savvy to try it out.

  • Discord keeps walking into rakes, but TeamSpeak is thriving after 'incredible surge of new users'

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  • Yeah honestly. Running the teamspeak server executable is hardly selfhosting, and they're just another closed source proprietary service. Cool they're still around after all these years I guess but they shouldn't even be considered as a migration option.

    Stoat and Fluxer are both open source, very straightforward and familiar, and I believe self-hostable. Much easier for casual users than Matrix too.

  • Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"

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  • Ah maybe the article I was reading was a bit dated, good to know it might be on the horizon. Honestly I almost worry the dev's gonna get slapped with a cease and desist because it's almost literally a discord clone in every single way.

    It did rub me the wrong way at first to see paywalled features already, but reading it more closely it seems to be mostly to offset server costs, and a self-hosted server seems to have all the paid upgrades available by default, so that seems fair enough.

    After playing with all 3 a bit, I have a feeling Fluxer might be the one that sticks, mostly due to the ease of use and familiarity.

  • Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"

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  • The one I've been seeing crop up a lot these past couple days is Fluxer, which is literally almost a 1:1 discord clone, even more than Stoat. Though E2EE isn't currently on the solo dev's roadmap, which is a shame.

    Matrix seems like the best bet in terms of privacy and security, but I swear every single client is hot garbage for some reason or another. I can't imagine non-tech-savvy users will ever be willing to stick to it.

    Realistically I think Stoat or Fluxer is going to win out here. I'm setting up all 3 for now, and I plan to ditch discord completely at the end of this month.

  • Rubio calls on Europe to join US in preserving 'western civilization'

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  • Too lenient for this fuck tbh

  • Watch YouTube privately - Materialious

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  • I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.

  • Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr

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  • Doesn't seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. Unless I missed something in the documentation. It's been working fine on the preview branch for ages.

  • Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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  • Yeah this one seems like the one to keep an eye on, but seems like there's no equivalent mobile client yet, and it's still missing some key features.

  • If you're paying for discord nitro, consider paying for a hosted/managed matrix server instead

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  • This is also why bluesky picked up over all the other twitter alternatives. The average user doesn't want to learn all this shit, they just want to use something that works (which in that situation is unfortunate, because Mastodon is right there and works perfectly fine out of the box with their default public instance, but it is what it is I guess).

    Realistically I don't see Matrix picking up as a widespread discord clone. Just the entire idea of Matrix being a protocol and having different clients to choose from is enough to turn a lot of folks away from it. Meanwhile, Stoat is practically building a 1:1 discord clone, and is much easier for the average user to understand.

  • Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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  • This is my experience with it so far. The bones are there but the current clients are all far from a replacement.

  • What's your current situation with Google?

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  • I'm as distanced as I can be for now but have one more big cord to cut - Google Fi. It's just by far the most affordable carrier for our use here, and frankly every alternative sucks ass just as much anyway, but I'd still like to move to something else sooner rather than later.

    Otherwise, my gmail accounts are still active but rarely used, both forwarding to Tuta. Been using GrapheneOS for over a year now, Aurora and the Play Store are last resorts for app installs. I only use youtube through a self-hosted Invidious instance. Photos has been long replaced with Immich, Drive long emptied and replaced with OpenCloud. For navigation, Magic Earth's been the most reliable, not FOSS but so be it, CoMaps is good for browsing/exploring but kind of terrible for driving.

  • Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours

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  • I sunk a couple hours into it today, pretty good stuff so far, though strategy games aren't usually my forte so I'm just full sending cats out at random lmao

    It's unmistakably an Edmund game, that's for sure.

    EDIT: Aaaand refunding, because holy fuck dude (Dogshit article, especially that it still tries to frame Israel's genocide as a "conflict", but the words taken right from McMillen's mouth are enough to toss this game right into a dumpster)

    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/edmund-mcmillen-on-assembling-mewgenics-meow-cameo-list-the-inclusion-of-people-with-clashing-ideologies-felt-appropriate

  • GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform

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  • You know I didn't even realize I said this and I'm gonna start using this one LMFAO

  • GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform

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  • Interesting, seems like this has been around for a while but I haven't heard of it until now. With how much Discord's shitting the fan and becoming (well, always has been) a privacy nightmare, this seems worth a try. The alternatives out there either need time to mature (Stoat) or don't really fill the same role (Matrix).

  • Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC

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  • Neat!

  • Oh no! The buildings that serve unhealthy slop aren't as colorful as they were 30 years ago! We must talk about this!

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  • Yeah, it's a genuine complaint tbh, corporate bullshit aside. The "millennial beige" epidemic is right up there with it. It just makes it feel like everything is intentionally bland and boring.

  • As the prophecy foretold

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  • The only animals that ACAB includes are the class traitors in Paw Patrol

  • Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC

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  • I played through it once (twice?) and put a good amount of time into endgame. Fun game for a bit, better than 3 at least, but god the performance is abysmal.