Fediverse people were betting on the wrong horse again: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322574/sub-club-mastodon-mammoth-fediverse-shutting-down
* Centralized payments for a "decentralized" network
* 150(!) creators is almost nothing, seems like there's too much complexity to get onboarded
* No micropayments & a subscription model instead
* No need for investors if you can pull of p2p microtransactions instead of relying on centralization
* Will probably count as in-app purchases, so 30% are gone already
* sub.club sounds more like a kink-friendly BDSM group than a payment service
I'm not even mocking them. I was among them for quite a few years until I finally couldn't ignore the fact that nothing they're trying really makes that much sense.
I was close to launching a platform to host multiple Fediverse apps on robust infrastructure but it got too obvious to me that the Fediverse isn't censorship proof and that it's quite easy to lose your account or get your instance defederated if you don't play along with the latest trend of suppressing critical thought.
Fediverse people were betting on the wrong horse again: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322574/sub-club-mastodon-mammoth-fediverse-shutting-down
* Centralized payments for a "decentralized" network
* 150(!) creators is almost nothing, seems like there's too much complexity to get onboarded
* No micropayments & a subscription model instead
* No need for investors if you can pull of p2p microtransactions instead of relying on centralization
* Will probably count as in-app purchases, so 30% are gone already
* sub.club sounds more like a kink-friendly BDSM group than a payment service
I had no idea I was in this much need of vacation. I'm past 1 week and I feel like my entire body is being renewed. My lower back pain is gone. My focus has increased. I love playing with tech again.
Then again, I was all alone working for the client for 12 weeks because my entire team was knocked out by post-π immune suppression or something, forcing me to push through 9-10h/day.
And I desperately want to fuck someone this or next week!
GM
I'm on k3s (hosting) + nginx (ingress) + flux (gitops) + velero (backups) now.
Compared to Github and Gitlab Codeberg/Forgejo is a masterpiece.
nostr:nprofile1qqsfcts2suzpxaeuhy2mnjwd9cwt69l98t3tp2r2hf09hu8uz0zzp5spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsyg8jf4 some may say you're going off the rails sometimes but I seriously wish I had more of your self-confidence.
And replacing all those SSO logins everywhere, updating passwords. Still evaluating alternatives for Photos. Proton isn't there yet. Self-hosting seems risky and requires good backups. Sigh.
same for Google.
All good, got that mail! π
It always makes me happy seeing people riding their BTWIN bikes through rough terrain. No need to always spend thousands on carbon and gear.
I have to expose them via https publicly though. Juggling between VPNs (security/adblocking/Tailscale doesn't cut it I want to stream my music from home and if I host stuff more seriously I'll offer accounts to friends as well.
I'm on podman, some stuff doesn't seem as robust but I only noticed it yesterday and didn't get a chance to debug it. Would've expected it to be up and running as well.
Was hoping there might be some open source platform sitting between MacGyvered docker-compose stuff and Kubernetes.
That's something I'm already doing with my docker compose + nginx.
But it's just stuff glued together and always requires some kicks after a reboot. π
How do you host your own stuff? I use Kubernetes at my job but I don't need 95% of its features at home. I just need a robust way to host multiple docker compose apps simultaneously with a central nginx/traefik ingress. k3s seems the easiest but it's still Kuberetes. I also dislike helm. Could perhaps live with a single master/node for the apps I need.
#selfhosting
It is remarkable how low latency the Sonos connection via UPnP is. None of the Sonos apps have had such an instant connection. Impressive.
Their latest trainwreck rewrite can't even connect to my rooms in 50% of all cases.
I guess the next lesson is to be okay with being alone.
#shadowwork
I can't believe Picard actually did a full run on that directory of mine. This is suspicious.
Perhaps it stumbled over the directory complexity because I just feed it the raw output from Google's Takeout? Would explain the missing tracks in various albums as well. Doesn't look like incomplete ID3 tags.
