Is Stoat not an alternative, it literally copies the UI too

ml is run by the devs of Lemmy so unfortunately that’s not realistic, you could be missing on a ton of information if you want to subscribe to Lemmy development or information related communities

This looks… Great? Nice work

Very cool, but would suggest replacing the 6A some time – read up on its battery problems

ठेचा चिकन? Excellent taste my man

Dude’s having an interesting life trajectory

Tbh a laptop is a “mobile” device

Noice. Tbh I didn’t post too much on /r/Android as I liked being a mod on it as I’m a huge Android nerd; I think people would have called mod abuse or something if they only saw my posts in the feed lol. People liked to be overtly critical of the modding anyway on that subreddit.

Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id and did a highlight by highlight match thread on !cricket@lemmy.world once. That last one was painful af.

Oof not great for an app which can cost a fortune to remove ads fully

Not wrong lol. I dislike their behavior but still contribute code to lemmy.

Wait what I thought this was satire at first

I have an account that I use to read, but I’ve never posted on Mastodon. Decided to tweet after seeing this post and I see a privacy option called “Quiet Public - Fewer Algorithmic Fanfares”.

Seriously, wtf is this? What does that even mean? If techie people like me can’t figure out Mastodon then you can’t expect the general public to do that. I’m not blaming this feature in particular, but Mastodon is quirky in all the wrong ways.

Honestly at this point there’s a fairly large number of instances so yours would need a selling point to even begin. And that’s before taking things like owner behaviour and strictness into consideration because the instance theme and tools will always be the first impression.

“Generic catch all instances” are common. You can only build up a user base if existing people are willing to ditch their own. What are yours doing that the current ones do not?

• Do you have a focus on a particular topic? I would consider posting a beautiful photo that I took on an instance dedicated to photography rather than the catch all one.
• Is your UI unique/pretty? Which leads me to the next point…
• Do you offer certain tools available/unique to your instance? 1) If yes, why can’t they be integrated with base lemmy? It’s open source after all. 2) If no for whatever reason (Lemmy devs slow to respond, low on their priority, will not accept, I don’t agree with their behaviour etc) is there a reason it cannot be included on other existing instances? Why is it exclusive to yours?

And then I would start looking at the details like what would uptime be, how much are you yourself making an effort to contribute and expand, etc

Nginx is owned by F5 now which is an American company so it’s not RU anymore

They should’ve stuck to v0.X versioning until it’s ready. Makes no sense to up to v1 if it’s still in alpha/beta

That’s regarded

Not OP but I’ve accidentally fingered another key a split second before hitting enter a few times. It’s not implausible.

Obsidian is one of those applications I sooo want to install because everyone loves it, but to me if I’m going through the pain of selfhosting I want to go FOSS only. Argh!

In very basic terms - GPL means that any modifications you make to a code base and distribute to public, you need to keep the license as GPL and open source all your modifications.

Once cloud started becoming a thing, the cloud vendors went “Well ackchyually🤓, the code changes we’re making are hosted on OUR server so we’re not technically distributing them to the public. So fuck you we have no obligation to make them open source”.

Which is why AGPL exists so even server side code needs to be public. Since the application in question here is a backend service, it’ll always be used server side and so any forks need to be open source.