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andscape OP , to selfhosted in Hosting a public wishlist

Thank you for the links, I had found a few of these but some are new. The basic idea is there, I’ll see if any of these can work for us. I’m growing more convinced though that hosting a whole app for this super simple use case might not be worth it, I think we might pivot to just hosting a really basic static page for it.

andscape OP , to selfhosted in Hosting a public wishlist

This is way too overkill for what we need. I’m sorry, I’ve been intentionally vague about the context for this but I guess it’s too unclear. We’re an activist group planning a protest. We might have to get this set up literally tomorrow and every penny comes out of (mostly my) pocket. We’re also all paranoid about opsec and anonymity, which is why the requirement about avoiding corporate services is there. Perhaps I should have posted this in a privacy focused comm instead, I apologize.

andscape OP , to selfhosted in Hosting a public wishlist

It’s pretty overkill for what we need, and it would still fall under “corporate” for us. At that point I could just go for the static Notion page which I can get live in 5m for free.

andscape OP , to selfhosted in Hosting a public wishlist

We can set up all of those but again, that’s kinda expensive for us rn. What’s the benefit of using a CMS like Joomla versus wishthis, or even a basic Caddy/Nginx webserver with a static page?

andscape , to technology in Need tech support (android bullshit) (resolved)

I believe you need root to access those, plus a file manager that supports it (I use Mixplorer which does). Otherwise, as someone else suggested, you can access them from a computer over ADB or MTP.

andscape , to technology in The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

This is such an amazing article, The Verge’s staff is still capable of some excellent journalism.

andscape , (edited ) to piracy in Is BlockTheSpot for Spotify desktop safe? Also, xmanager?

I had high hopes when I tried it out but frankly it’s been almost unusable for me. Terrible performance, laggy UI, plenty of bugs, long loading times for songs…

I don’t know if something in my mobile environment was messing with it but I use quite a few indie FOSS apps still in beta and none of them worked as badly as Spotube did. I’d love to go back to it if it improves, but for now it’s just not worth the UX pain.

Edit: forgot to mention. The idea of sourcing tracks from YouTube is cool but causes loads od trouble in practice. I’ve found remixed versions streamed as the original, tracks with the intro from the music video, tracks with sound effects from the music video, and tracks that just cannot be streamed cause they aren’t on YouTube. I know there’s a feature to pick which version to stream, but it’s quite a bit of UX friction and it didn’t work often enough to be a showstopper.

andscape , to fediverse in Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China

Even if its configured correctly to totally obfuscate the data and the final endpoint of the traffic it’s still blatantly obvious that a VPN is in use.

Which is why Chinese users don’t use standard VPNs, they use obfuscated proxies with protocols like Shadowsocks and V2Ray, which mask the tunneled traffic as innocuous HTTPS traffic.

andscape , to fediverse in Erik Moeller on Mastodon: There's a common false dichotomy about Threads [...]

Ah ok this I’m not sure about. I mean, Lemmy added instance blocks as well in the latest release (0.19), but it seems that, unlike Mastodon, this only hides the content from you and doesn’t prevent your content from being sent to that instance. It does seem like a pretty big oversight, but I haven’t found a discussion about this. There might be good reasons why it’s this way.

andscape , to fediverse in Erik Moeller on Mastodon: There's a common false dichotomy about Threads [...]

I don’t think Lemmy does either…? It pushes updates to subs that at least someone on the receiving instance subscribes to (at least that’s how it worked last time I checked). That’s why there are scripts going around for new instances to automatically follow a bunch of popular subs to populate the All feed.

I think Mastodon works in the same way with users, where it sends updates for accounts that someone on the receiving end follows. So if nobody follows you from Threads it wouldn’t send any of your posts there.

andscape , to fediverse in Erik Moeller on Mastodon: There's a common false dichotomy about Threads [...]

a long form nuanced take

interesting, however have you considered pee pee poo poo

Truly a worthy contribution to the discourse, thank you…

andscape , (edited ) to fediverse in Erik Moeller on Mastodon: There's a common false dichotomy about Threads [...]

ActivityPub doesn’t just push everything on a server to every federated instance like a fire hose. In the first place, as [email protected] said, it only feeds your content to an instance if somebody on that instance follows you, which you can set to require your manual approval. Your posts could also get pushed if somebody else boosts your post and they have followers on the other instance.

However, if you set an instance block, none of your posts get sent to the instance, period. They would have to resort to scraping. In other words, if you don’t want to give meta your data, just set an instance/domain block.

andscape , to android in WhatsApp is rolling out a new revamped interface for the Android beta app!

I thought I heard they were rolling out some material you theming in beta a while ago. Did they revert it?

andscape , to worldnews in Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media

Oh sure, didn’t mean to imply that Chinese people weren’t smart enough to think for themselves. I was just making the point that neither western media nor Chinese media is helping at all to create space or goodwill for critical exchange and debate across boundaries and firewalls (which, to be fair, is not surprising).

Glad to see there are actually Chinese netizens on Lemmy, by the way.

andscape , to worldnews in Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media

This is just straight up true. Besides the belligerence and racism it pushes, it also makes it near impossible to have an actual, reasonable and critical comparative discussion of Chinese and Western societies. It closes any space that might exist for Chinese people to take part in any discussion of international affairs, since the attitude is so strongly against them. This pushes any open minded Chinese netizen back into the arms of their own government’s propaganda, rather than inviting them into an open discussion of the good and bad sides of their and other societies.

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