You express your like or dislike toward the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.

As an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.

I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.

In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.

Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

I don’t have a thermostat, but I have indoor and outdoor temp and humidity sensors, and a window position sensor. HA notifies me (via lighting color) if I should open the window because the outdoor conditions are better than indoors, or vice versa.

I assume it’s because it reduces the possibility of other processes outside of the linked containers accessing the files (so security and stability).

Here’s a list of WP’s templates for adding social media links to articles—looks like they have one for Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_media_external_link_templates

CasaOS is not an operating system and more like a GUI for Docker

So it’s more like Portainer?

One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small or self-hosted one? (Or in other words—does the nature of the platform software potentially incentivize consolidation?)

If there are a bunch of posts on a particular topic, shouldn’t it keep at least one of them? Otherwise it would tend to completely filter out the most significant or interesting topics.

Internal server (Home Assistant etc.): domus
External server (Nextcloud etc.): nimbus
Router/firewall: murus

I believe so—see Wake-on-LAN.

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One under-appreciated aspect of Docker is that it forces you to document all your setup steps in your dockerfile and docker-config files.

The generational divide is just one instance of a broader phenomenon—similar divisions exist in adults between our constructed personas for family, work, friends, interest groups, etc.

Or maybe a server that lets you create multiple, “connected” accounts at the same time, together with a client that combines the accounts into one view.

I remember the steady turnover of social media networks leading up to Facebook—the joke was that kids would migrate to a new platform every time their parents joined their current one. I think there’s a kernel of truth there that’s still a potential weak point on Facebook: people want to have distinct, non-overlapping online personas for different social groups (family, work, friends, etc) without the overhead of maintaining multiple accounts. That seems like an avenue a potential fediverse Facebook alternative might exploit.

I haven’t tried it because I’ve read a lot of negative discussions of it—and because (by my understanding) the only reasonable use case would be if there were a large number of users and each user is likely to have copies of the same files but don’t want to expose their files to each other (so you can’t just manually de-dupe).

Am I missing something, or does karma (as a cumulative per-user measure) not play any functional role in Lemmy anyway?