Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you’re not sending to other hosts.

In mine, the keys stopped working reliably, but it was still my favourite Android phone so far

And recaptcha. And Google-hosted Javascript libraries. And youtube embeds.

It’s source-available

Yeah they fucked up v30, i updated from v29 a few weeks back and had to restore it and now I’m back at 29

USPol toxic spill again

“Why does my fucking light not turn on, do i need to add yet another repeater or do i need to reset slzbw-06 yet again” kind of problems

Also at some point i discovered nothing at all works because homeassistant decided to give my network a new identity so I needed to pair everything again. My fault for not having this backed up, but it’s not something that should happen in a system that’s “worry free”.

Zigbee sucks and is a source of constant problems for me, but you can’t have a thumb sized door sensor using wifi, it uses too much energy.

Something p2p like Tox or Briar, both annoying for daily use.

We went full circle to the early 2000s, slapping PGP on top of public messaging platforms!

Hetzner’s S3 is immature, they just started beta last year, and are rough at the edges

Back then the CEOs were babbling about information superhighways while tech rolled their eyes

Facebook has shut down my pseudonymous account because i did not provide a photo of my ID. Try it, you should meet more like-minded people there than on Lemmy

The one with whiskey

Ah, yes. AI bad.

One scenario is that normies join en masse and influencers/marketers follow them, and the quality of conversation goes to zero like on all big platforms. You can’t solve this with software.

Nothing wrong about that

I’m so happy to be here and read about Zuck, Elon and Google all the time

There is Diaspora, it is like a federated Facebook with a bit more privacy settings. All crickets now that everyone moved on to Mastodon.

There’s encrypted p2p stuff with nice apps like Scuttlebutt with Manyverse app, but nobody uses it.

There’s Movim which builds a social network layer over XMPP, so you can share to your contacts. Guess what - nobody uses it.

OpenBazaar, never took off