Try to keep track of how much work you invest because it may be time-expensive to switch later on if you built a lot of stuff on their infra. Which is not the end of the world.

Not sure what your privacy/security needs are, but it would be much cleaner to just not allow federation if you don’t want any info to leak.

You are lucky in a way that OMV has a fantastic documentation suite. it is not too long, and I recommend reading it cover to cover, as well as the omv-plugins and omv-extras documentation, skipping over anything that’s not interesting, but seeing that it’s there for future reference.

OMV is interesting to me because it gives you a gui that lets you do many difficult or advanced things fairly quickly, but it is not always clear what all the options do, and things don’t always work as expected. But the documentation will lead you well.

My advice is start slow, stick to the garden path (don’t try anything custom or unusual), and frequently browse the forums.

Great find! I hope it works! Maybe things like this will get more use now that Chromecast Audio is getting deprecated

I always thought since the cast button on Spotify/tidal/etc. is a Google thing it would only ever work with the Chromecast protocol.

I have a raspberry pi 4 with

• A Uninterrupted Power Supply
• External powered HDD for the data drive

There’s one I saw that gave the bot a long circular form to fill out or something, I can’t exactly remember

I didn’t know that was the entire point of self hosting. Some people want to self host things for the public, like a website or game server.

There is a program called “yunohost” to simplify this process.

Maybe a VPS is better for website hosting but some people want to self host.

Seconding sending an email. SMB for big stuff.

Gotcha!

How so?

I thought Blockchain was how the protocol knew how to federate, e.g. where to find other users. (?) I don’t really remember how Blockchain works but iirc it is a way to verify trust, e.g. this person really is /u/sem because our shared document says they are.

I know DNS is an alternative but it kind of sucks. Bluesky is inventing it’s open DiD thing for identity and it is centralized in practice but might be a good system. And I have no idea how it works.

Sounds like an interesting thing to try! I do think it might tend to group users into a groupthink / exclusion mentality, maybe, or maybe it won’t, but definitely cool idea.

I’ve seen plenty of mod drama / trolls over the years, seems like a fundamentally human problem, kind of like good vs evil in a way, almost impossible for one side to win over the other.

I think it’s pretty well studied that pseudonyms are much better for human interaction than true anonymity. I’m not a social scientist though so I don’t have the references offhand.

It can be fun to be anonymous but there’s a reason Yikyak shutdown, 4chan, 8chan are how they are, etc. they just don’t tend to work well long term.

With pseudonyms ban evasion is possible but registering an account is at least some friction deterring some bad behavior, and mods have more tools. And on the other side you do have some reputation building that occurs when people have stable usernames.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I am not sure how Matrix handles keys but it is a real headache for end users. For me at least

With openid, etc, it’s decentralized compared with centralized and distributed, so you wouldn’t get stuck with one openid provider.

I don’t know much about any of these so thanks for developing for the rest of us.

There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms

What would be the possible alternatives to block chain?

To me it didn’t sound like complaining, just sharing that experience.

No not on the server, on the phone. You know how it fills up with photos?

Does it automatically delete pictures when you’re out of space ?