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AnimalsDream

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  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I keep researching alternatives, and every time I circle back around toward Matrix, despite criticisms. Part of it is a question of what everyone is using. I pretty consistently see that groups who use or used to use irc are now using Matrix additionally or as a replacement.

    Part of me would like xmpp to be the best answer, but I've yet to see an implementation that handles public communities well, particularly for anything that functions at all like Discord. Matrix seems to be at least gaining voice/video chat support?

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • The last time I looked into Stoat (back when it was Revolt), they had basically no cryptographic capabilities enabled. Have they added any e2e features at all yet? Like, the overall impression I got from them it is that it's being developed mainly by someone who seems pretty new to programming in general, and that makes me feel pretty cautious.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on the internet?

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  • Pretty much. Recently got a device for Meshtastic, need to get around to playing with it. If I recall, SearX is an open-source search engine yeah? We should mod it to explicitly block the corpoweb as a whole and strictly favor results from foss and federated sources.

  • MTG defends protester shot by DHS and says people need to lose their ‘blinders’: ‘You are all being incited into civil war’

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  • Hey MTG, if you've got evidence, maybe get that shit leaking. Leaders need to start talking more seriously about treason charges, because that is what this is.

  • Would an ActivityPub enabled fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?

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  • too overwhelming in UI/UX for majority of people coming from Discord

    Uhhh, Discord's user experience is one of the most chaotic fever dreams I've ever come across, and is a large part of what makes me want to get away from it (among many other reasons).

    One of the really frustrating things about Discord is that people are using it for things that it's not good for. Like documentation, or really anything where a new reader is looking to find a persistent source of information. Chat should be good at chat, and wikis should be easily accessible on the open web - not in an obscure digital group that has to be joined to be seen.

    It's like when people start a business and then use facebook as their "site." No that is not a site, and you know what, I don't want to shop there anymore either. Same energy.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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    1. Get a cheap mobile specifically for protests, especially using it for pictures and video.
    2. Set it up to livestream everything, so that any video evidence gained can't be taken away.
    3. Get a faraday bag for when you need to put that mobile away and not be tracked.

    Maybe I'm missing something though?

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • My problem isn't with open-source online services existing. Of course some things are inherently net-based. My problem is with the way everything is being done as a server even when it's completely unnecessary. Syncthing alone - which is not server-based btw - is more than enough to take care of cloud needs for everything from calendars, to photos, recipes, text files, password databases, and more.

    Hell, it'd actually be pretty interesting if someone did come up with a way to make a e2e chat client that works through Syncthing.

    My point is I just want to download an app, have that app convert a recipe webpage into its own standard format, and then save that file on my own device. I do not want to deal with the hassle of getting Docker installed and working, nor to have it gobble up tons of computer resources just to do that one simple thing.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Synthing does not use a server based architecture.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • Slaps on top of fusion reactor

    "You can boil so much water with this."

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Those same routers that still have problems with security updates, and are frequently the targets of cyber attacks? So how is it in any way a good idea to run entire server stacks, and databases (which throw a wrench in data portability compared to standard file formats), creating so much bloat and unnecessary attack surface, and then making all of these apps network-facing - opening them up to attacks?

    How about instead I just use a standard text editor to save my recipe as a markdown file, and if I need to move it I can either get a usb cord or use Syncthing? Sorry but this whole self host movement is pretty insane.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • On the one hand I do support the existence of open-source self-hostable alternatives to surveillance-capitalist offerings. But at the same time it has been driving me crazy how many things are being shifted toward this server-based architecture. For one example, I want an open-source app that will allow me to import recipes from any text or website automatically. But I want those recipes to save in files, be offline, and I do not want to maintain a whole damn server just to manage my fucking recipes.

    Not everything needs to be web connected by default, and most people have no interest in running any kind of server.

  • Relatable

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  • I hate programming. But I love when I try to do programming and I get to see a program thing come to life and do stuff. I have all these cute little pets that bark, "Hello, World!"

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  • At least The 4400 was nice enough to continue in book form... which apparently also ends in a cliffhanger.

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • Higher taxes on the rich don't go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.

    Corporations need to be banned.

  • You can shove that lightsaber deep up in your Death Star.

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  • Lightsabers are overrated.

  • Ideas for very simple improvements to instant noodles?

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  • Also since no one else suggested it yet, tofu is always a great option for easy protein. And albeit unorthodox in instant noodles, I've found beans to be a perfectly fine addition.

  • Ideas for very simple improvements to instant noodles?

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  • Most straightforward path from a health standpoint is switching from refined forms of noodles to whole grain noodles. I've never been able to find whole grain pre-formulated instant noodle brands that I like, so I just get plain noodles and flavorings separately.

  • "One piece after the 37 episode gets really good"

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  • Okay, cool. That sounds like the way to go. I'll just use a different account and email for the free trial, then switch back to my main if I ever start a subscription.

  • "One piece after the 37 episode gets really good"

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  • I mean, I'm currently already 650 episodes into the main anime already, so I may as well keep going. 😅 One Pace sounds great though, so I'll probably try that for a rewatch someday. Maybe after reading the manga for comparison.