I read that title as “Is there a FOSS alternative to apps like TikTok?”

How will it affect me? Well! It won’t because I don’t use Android. Lol

I don’t think it’s possible. iTunes requires a full OS install, so you’ll have to just run it on a VM. And Apple has things locked down so much that the only way to do full iPhone/iPad backups is through iTunes.

You can start posting on !selfhost@lemmy.ml instead.

I just use Spotify for podcasts. Unless there’s something I’m missing from other podcast apps, Spotify works great for me.

It’s not selfhosted.

I saw they released Dev Update 4 last week, so glad this is coming out today! Can’t wait to give it a try.

You don’t get federated automatically. On your own instance you will only see posts in communities that you subscribe to. What I did was set up a “bot” user that I used to subscribe to a bunch of communities that I might find interesting when just browsing the All feed but I didn’t want in my personal Subscribed feed. There’s a few tools that will automatically subscribe a bot user on your instance to all the top communities but I found just manually going through https://lemmyverse.net/communities and clicking subscribe as that bot user worked for me.

I also wanted something like this, but I don’t want every single community. I ended up making a not account that I use to subscribe to random communities I might have a fleeting interest in, but don’t want in my subscribed feed.

This was going to be my suggestion!