I’ve always had a thing for tech. I used to make my own custom MySpace profiles, and pet pages on NeoPets. I did go to college for networkinf, but didn’t finish, and ended up in an unrelated field (won’t name here to avoid doxing myself, but I’m not even allowed to troubleshoot any tech to emphasize how unrelated this is).

I did kinda… Completely drop off for a while, but the thing that got me back was my most recent anti-Microsoft kick. Completely dropped Win10 (I’d usually had a windows and Linux machine at all times), dropped Google as my email, started using omg.lol for a lot of things, etc. Then I went half-in on a computer to use as a DNS-wide adblocker, and noticed that I could do… A lot more with it, and I like to tinker, so why not do a lot more with it? 2 years later, and it’s still the best $100 I’ve ever spent tbh.

Good to know! Might try that at some point, just to see. I don’t care for most of the matrix UIs, but maybe self hosting one of them will make me xD

Fair, yeah. I didn’t realize Rocket had gotten heavy. I hadn’t used it in years, just remembered it being okay when I had. I’ve switched to XMPP for the same things I was using RC for, admittedly, it’s just… More like a traditional texting app than emulating Discord’s IRC-like experience

Less a correction, more a question. I’d heard about them doing it in some countries, I didn’t see the post where it was going to be international.

Yeah. Solid chance I’m dropping the few discord-related things I do use here soon.

sigh

Yeah, depending on what it’s used for it can do well. If it’s for scheduled calls, like with a weekly tabletop game, it can definitely work well. If it’s for the more casual pop in/out that happens on a lot of Discords it’s worse. I just don’t know of a replacement for that aside Matrix

Wait, requiring a face scan of everyone?? I know they started doing that as an age verification thing for some people, but everyone?

IRC, RocketChat, Slack. Technically Matrix, but for your usecase I wouldn’t recommend it, as it’s a bit heavy, and if you’re just planning on using it with other people on the same server there’s not a point.

EDIT: Just noticed the voice chat thing. I’ve used Jitsi for that, and it works well. Also self-hostable

There’s one on F-Droid, yeah

I didn’t realize Memories had a mobile app, and it has literally both of the features xD Looks near identical to Google photos, and has map pins in the app. Sweet, ty!

I’ve used PeerTube for streaming personally, it works well. I haven’t used OwnCast, but I’ve been on OwnCast streams, and it also seems to work well. PT also has the benefit of being fedi, but that’s only if you want it, OwnCast just has a central website it posts all of the streams to I think? At least all of them that want to be there

My advice for running the software on a work PC: Don’t. You can buy an old used laptop off of eBay for $50 in working condition that works fine as a media center. $50+the convenience usually isn’t worth your job, but YMMV.

My advice for discovery: Idk what spotube is, but panoscrobbler+listenbrainz works great for me

Yeah, it’s definitely one of those that’s also just… Useful. I usually don’t go for software that’s trying to do too much, but for some reason I don’t mind having nextcloud as 10 different things xD Sync files, sync podcast listens, sync my RSS feeds… A lot of things all in one

I doubt anyone else will know how to deal with the server tbh. Nobody else really uses it, either. Inertia’s a pain, and while I do technically have other users here, I think the most recent login aside me was 6 months ago. They’ll have access to the password to get into stuff to handle whatever accounts they need to, and I may include instructions on how to turn my blog into an epub file if they want to do that, but the server itself likely won’t last more than a month after I die.

It’s will, as in “strength of will.” Basically meaning “Where there’s someone willing to do something, there will be a way to do it”

This. I self host some things because it’s just fun, other things because of censorship, other things because of privacy. I probably wouldn’t have Nextcloud if Google wasn’t collecting so much data. Probably wouldn’t be self-hosting my blog if content weren’t as censored everywhere. I probably would still be self-hosting a Minecraft server with a small website for said server that the members of the server can contribute to when they find/do something cool.

Publii is probably what you want. It’s a GUI similar to WP/SquareSpace, but it spits out static pages.

Is there a reason to be concerned about the blocking anywhere besides email? I can’t think of any, but I might not be thinking of some usecases

I use two: Namecheap and omg.lol.

Admittedly omg.lol isn’t a traditional registrar, but they do give you a domain name and other stuff (I don’t use most of it), but it’s $20/yr

Namecheap varies, but last I checked it was a bit cheaper. Not by much, maybe $15/yr for my .monster domain?

Yeah, with the way activity pub works it doesn’t pull the old info, it just gets new posts. I know you can usually take a link to a post and search it and it’ll pull, but Friendica didn’t get anything from one of the trail links, though friendica is picky

Poked around, there’s a demo instance with a demo account. Plugged it into Friendica, and it seems to pull the info.

https://demo.wanderer.to/profile/@demo