I usr it every day its great.

In theory one day its going to be too much for our current bandwidth. We are no where near that even with single user instances.

There are ways of making things much more efficient. Piefed for example bundles up votes so the API doesn’t get hit with millions of upvotes all separately. Peertube has P2P video sharing so the more people host/view videos, it actually gets faster. Theres a ton of others. But it sounds like a future issue.

Thats the idea! You just have to get them off the store and download them somehow.

Calibre is what I would take a look at. There is a web version that has a couple of different setups. for docker this looks interesting:

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web

Ive also used yunohost (mostly for ease of use and backups) here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/calibreweb

Its basically the same thing either way.

am I right in understanding that I can host my library of ebooks on my home server then point a client at that server so I have access to my full library without having to save the books locally on device?

Some do this and some dont. I personally find ebooks to be so small that it doesnt matter, but some people use the server client to keep track of where they were at on certain books, helpwith their large collection, share with others of the family, etc…etc… And I think books with pictures such as manga, magazines, or other such take up more room so it might make sense if you have a lot of those.

I personally like having the system auto-update my device with new books and convert into nice to read formats for my custom devices. It works out really well.

I had no idea this was a thing. Interesting. I can see from liability why this is not something they dont want to touch, being a general purpose instance.

I think lemmy/fediverse needs a place where if you try and subscribe to something blocked, you get a post/page explaining why they did the thing. Its going to confuse new users otherwise.

calibre is pretty great. I also have a kobo and its the reason I can load/convert a lot of what I read.

Im seeing the same on gotosocial. Im hoping the new articles will pop up at some point.

It would be a killer feature for us in the fedi. :)

Peertube is awesome, but more alternatives in the space would be welcome.

Theres a reddit community for that. Litterally !reddit@lemmy.world

Thanks! I personally think as long as people land in the fediverse, its going to be ok. But its cool to give some highlights to piefed.

Yeah I agree, its all the same TBH.

Because it would address what you talk about above. You dont like it, fix it. Ive done it on quite a few fedi services, its not terribly hard. It makes the world just a tiny bit better.

Create a PR and fix it.

It took 2 days for a PR to go though on piefed. It was a great experience.

Reading the code is VERY easy, even compared to other projects. I was able to get it up and running in about 30 mins with very little knowledge of the project. The “filters” are all optional on the admin side and instances can and have modified them to suit their needs.

Congrats @rimu@piefed.social ! Your project has gained “controversy”, the main way you can tell its getting successful 😁.

Yep i agree. Although it sounds like its trivial to break lora/tastic encryption from what was discussed online. Ill be honest i never went down that rabbit hole.

Agreed. Im tired after work. Debian/yunohost is good enough.

At work its hundreds of docker containers but all ci/cd takes care of that.

I just have yunohost do like 90% of the work nowadays. My day job is docker/cli so the last thing i want to do is more of it.

If there is an actual emergency, I would say these are a nifty introduction to ham radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZxR-qtGH7c

Its amazing how far you can go with a somewhat simple setup. You can go really cheap with a Baofeng.

Just FYI at the speed meshtastic/core is talking about, it would be very slow. Like dialup would look fast.

But its a fun hobby! Take a look over at !meshtastic@mander.xyz for anyone interested. Meshtastic (and meshcore) are also SUUUPER alpha so dont expect anything polished.