Discussion Ethically Online

lashman said:

Metin Seven 🎨 (@metin@graphics.social)

Deleted my LinkedIn account today. Feels like a relief. Exited Facebook, Twitter and Instagram many years ago already, which also made my life more comfortable. Mastodon, Pixelfed and other Fediverse platforms are different. You're not being manipulated by algorithms to maximize engagement...
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Linkedin is great, the most amazing gathering of sociopaths.
 
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Migrated my two important spreadsheets that I use semi-regularly over to Proton Spreadsheets, and now I'm basically off Big Tech almost completely.

The only two things left I have are iCloud Drive (for photos) and Apple Music.

Once I find replacements for those two, I will basically be able to move between any OS and device and not have any pain doing so. Feels great to be almost completely free of tech lock-in.
 
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lashman said:
if you want self-hosted stuff: immich and swing music
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I liked Immich, but I don’t really want to put my photos on my home server that I then need to maintain, so I’m looking for a turnkey solution.

Currently Proton Drive backs up my photo library in addition to iCloud, but it won’t sync in the background as it has to encrypt photos on device before uploading. So not ideal.

My main goal with photo storage is to not host it somewhere where I will struggle to migrate elsewhere (Apple) or have my and my friends/family’s likeness used in AI or advertising (Google).

So I’m thinking possibly Ente Photos.

Swing Music looks cool, but you’re locked out of Apple devices by the looks of it, so it’s even worse than Apple Music, which currently only excludes Linux. Plus I need discovery features so I’m not listening to the same songs over and over, as I am incapable of finding new music by myself.

I don’t mind self-hosting my music, but I really need help finding music and I’ve found Apple Music is just really damn good at that.
 
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I liked Tidal that one month that I used it. Ideally I'd buy from HDTracks / Bandcamp.
 
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The one thing that Proton needs to improve on their sheets (at least) is the loading speed.
I imported my game completion sheet there to test it out a bit and it takes much longer to load, even beyond just the decryption step.
At least on my end it's like 8-10 seconds just hitting reload on the browser toolbar.
 
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Parsnip said:
The one thing that Proton needs to improve on their sheets (at least) is the loading speed.
I imported my game completion sheet there to test it out a bit and it takes much longer to load, even beyond just the decryption step.
At least on my end it's like 8-10 seconds just hitting reload on the browser toolbar.
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I don’t mind a slightly longer initial load, but I find it lags a bit on the spreadsheet itself, which is annoying.

Hopefully they follow up their web apps with desktop versions that use your device’s CPU to process this kinda thing.
 
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I think Proton is working on a new SDK. Hopefully that leads to them making dedicated apps to all their services for linux.

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I’m feeling in a better place mentally, so I’m looking to go on socials.

I’m thinking of self-hosting a single user instance. Should I use Mastodon or Misskey? They’re compatible with each other due to ActivityPub, but I wonder if anyone here has experience of both and thinks one is better to use or self-host than the other.

Also, what’s a good Pixelfed server for sharing game screenshots? I don’t want to self-host this.
 
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Nebulys said:
I’m feeling in a better place mentally, so I’m looking to go on socials.

I’m thinking of self-hosting a single user instance. Should I use Mastodon or Misskey? They’re compatible with each other due to ActivityPub, but I wonder if anyone here has experience of both and thinks one is better to use or self-host than the other.

Also, what’s a good Pixelfed server for sharing game screenshots? I don’t want to self-host this.
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Isn't Misskey the porn instance
 
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Nebulys said:
I’m feeling in a better place mentally, so I’m looking to go on socials.

I’m thinking of self-hosting a single user instance. Should I use Mastodon or Misskey? They’re compatible with each other due to ActivityPub, but I wonder if anyone here has experience of both and thinks one is better to use or self-host than the other.

Also, what’s a good Pixelfed server for sharing game screenshots? I don’t want to self-host this.
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either one is good, it's mostly about what sort of features you want - misskey has a bit of formatting and stuff

as for pixelfed - if you don't want your own then just go with .social, it's good enough

and don't forget to share your accounts so i can follow you :D

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Isn't Misskey the porn instance
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a lot of the Japanese ones are, but misskey in itself is just another piece of software - like mastodon etc.
 
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lashman said:
a lot of the Japanese ones are, but misskey in itself is just another piece of software - like mastodon etc.
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Nebulys said:
It’s software like Mastodon. I don’t know if there’s a particular Misskey instance, but I’m talking about hosting my own on my server, not joining an instance.
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Ahh, I see. I always say misskey on the Federated feed, usually with hentai so I figured that's where all the goons were.
 
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I have Unlimited. Other than the AI shit (which has a separate subscription) I use all their apps and services. It’s all very high quality, but their Linux support needs work.

I’d recommend getting a private domain and using it with Proton Mail, as some sites block @proton.me email addresses because surveillance capitalism is a cartel and they do each other a solid by making using a privacy-respecting service inhospitable.
 
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Biggest issue for me is, Im trying to have less not more subscriptions. Going to see how it works out just having my own emails on my domain, thus far its mostly good, only issue was kofi which is marked as spam and cant get them to my email. But my emails have been accepted everywhere thus far.
 
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Biggest issue for me is, Im trying to have less not more subscriptions. Going to see how it works out just having my own emails on my domain, thus far its mostly good, only issue was kofi which is marked as spam and cant get them to my email. But my emails have been accepted everywhere thus far.
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I think reducing subscriptions is fine. But I also feel paying a sub for something that has value and has an ongoing cost to run/maintain is not a bad thing, so long as it respects your privacy.

Paying for Netflix: bad. You should be able to purchase the shows and films you want to watch rather than subscribe. There’s very little ongoing cost associated with providing DRM-free downloads, if they wanted to.

Paying for email: fine. It’s an ongoing cost to run and I also think it’s mission critical enough that you need reliability and robustness, so I wouldn’t self-host either.
 
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Nebulys said:
I have Unlimited. Other than the AI shit (which has a separate subscription) I use all their apps and services. It’s all very high quality, but their Linux support needs work.

I’d recommend getting a private domain and using it with Proton Mail, as some sites block @proton.me email addresses because surveillance capitalism is a cartel and they do each other a solid by making using a privacy-respecting service inhospitable.
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It's gonna sound really stupid, but how do I get a private domain?
 
Nebulys said:
I think reducing subscriptions is fine. But I also feel paying a sub for something that has value and has an ongoing cost to run/maintain is not a bad thing, so long as it respects your privacy.

Paying for Netflix: bad. You should be able to purchase the shows and films you want to watch rather than subscribe. There’s very little ongoing cost associated with providing DRM-free downloads, if they wanted to.

Paying for email: fine. It’s an ongoing cost to run and I also think it’s mission critical enough that you need reliability and robustness, so I wouldn’t self-host either.
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I'll try to reduce my subs this year, my main target is Amazon Prime.
 
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Speaking of subs, I did sub to Libro.fm for audiobooks, Libro is an employee owned company and they share profits with a bookstore of your choice, and they got a promo right now where they give you two extra credits to purchase a book, additional to the credit you get each month with the sub.

Fuck Amazon, Audible and Jeff Bezos.
 
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