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
Oh, there definitely are other UIs available. I’ve used a lot of them, and I do have a mastodon account. It just doesn’t have a lot of base features I like, plus Friendica let’s you do weird things like following RSS feeds, and posting from RSS feeds, natively, also I prefer the way replies are shown there, and I haven’t seen any mastodon clients that show them that way
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.
Bsky is owned by a transphobe, and funded by venture capital. Also from what I’ve heard they have the ability to ban anyone on any instance of bsky, not just the flagship one, I might be wrong on that one though.
Mastodon has its problems, but there’s a scale to it. I personally don’t care for the Mastodon software much, my own non-lemmy fedi account is on Friendica, but still.
Publii is probably what you want. It’s a GUI similar to WP/SquareSpace, but it spits out static pages.
Could be a more recent change? I tried this about 6 months ago. I got around it using a temp email, though. Admittedly I don’t use that account for much, and should probably delete it xD
There are several that do, namely protonmail. You can get an email address without having a previous one, but if you sign up to any website using a free protonmail account they require you to either pay, or give them another email account to verify you. Doesn’t stop you from using disposable emails from what I remember though.
Just note: Using the duress pin after you know the cops are after you could open you up to evidence tampering charges.
It’s very wrong about my entire setup, but it’ll be because it can tell you didn’t download some things
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?
I’m not sure if bluetooth hacking is enough of a concern to be a problem? I’ve never heard of any major cases of it, and of all things, I doubt a music player would be a high enough value target for them to bother with? Could do something meant to spread to other devices, sure, but… I doubt the risk is high enough to be a primary concern.
Semi-related, but I did learn something: The modern name for MP3 players is DAP (Digital Audio Player), which can help with searching for them.
It’s opt-out. The default experience of DDG is with AI. They have a subdomain without AI, and you can disable it on the main domain.
Opt-in would be if it were disabled by default on the main domain, and they had a subdomain for AI.
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.
Not sure where you are in the world, but 4tb drives are $80? Which like. $80 is a lot when you ain’t got it, but in computer terms it’s probably the cheapest part in the box
RAM’s expensive, storage has gotten pretty cheap, at least for HDDs.
Given your sunny disposition, I’ll politely decline.
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