so it’s an electron web app you could instead of in-browser web ui?

Syncthing has never failed me.

systemd is a godsend when you need service control while getting actual work done, at scale.

there are legitimate things to criticize but in general the rants are incompetent preaching to the uninformed.

I’m still not sure why would anyone expect privacy on a distributed public forum and how would this even work.

supposedly you pay for this software. might as well pay for RHEL too then.

3 days

I’m going to continue running Debian as I did since 2003 or so.

100% this, it’s kind of weird that it’s not.

unless you depend on a third party, this is a nontrivial problem.

recent events with beehaw have shown that being on a large instance does not guarantee federation.

i’m all for roaming profiles even though i think the best option is hosting a personal or a friends-only instance - unless you’re a colossal asshole nobody will defederate you, you’re are not depending on anyone but yourself for your profile and subscriptions, etc etc. this obviously isn’t for everyone but the barrier of entry is sufficiently low for people interested in tech and fediverse to do just that.

email has started as a fully distributed system but - for reasons too many to count here - ended up centralized over several huge providers, openly dictating rules to everyone else. i’d rather fediverse not followed this road.

i’d rather have a mesh of small-ish instances instead of several huge ones, that aside the more people the better.