I’ve been here for a while now. To me, the UI is more comfortable than Lemmy. At the time I switched, I hadn’t found a Lemmy app I really loved, so the PWA here is okay for now. I do really like the Topics feature, especially as a way to simplify building a feed for new users.

It’s not going to do much at this point, but I’ll give you a +1. I’m all in on AOC, but this isn’t even an article. No insight, no attempt to discern any truth, and barely even able to contextualize the tweets. It’s trash for clicks.

I installed Capyreader for the capybara, but stayed for how nice the app is.

I think a lot of the responses here get at the fact that Mastodon does take a little time and work to curate a feed that you enjoy.

I run a little instance with a few active users, so I follow them. I don’t tend to follow hashtags, but I check them out now and then to look for interesting posters. Browse the FediFollows account and https://fedi.directory/ . Use a hashtag or two when you post sometimes and check out the accounts that share or like your post.

Follow accounts liberally, but unfollow just as liberally they just don’tdo it for you. Eventually, you’ll end up with something that you enjoy.

Everyone has said Nextcloud, and I agree.

I will also add though that I keep Nextcloud on a VPS rather than hosting it at home. Easier for me in terms of backups and storage, plus I don’t have to worry about a kid or my wife unplugging the PC to charge a phone or something. 🙃

I’ve been trying out the DuckDuckGo browser for the last week or so and it’s doing the job. Of your list, it doesn’t have a tab bar, but it checks the other boxes well enough, I think. I do really miss the reader mode button in Firefox. And generally the ability to use extensions.

My reasoning and setup are different, but I’m also looking at DAS solutions this week for a media server.

After just about a month of hosting some things on a Raspberry Pi 4, I think it’s about time to work on repurposing this mini PC that hasn’t been doing much the last few years and keep growing my services.

To that end, can anyone point me to a good, thorough guide to getting going with Sonarr? I installed it, but then realized I needed to add a client and Prowlarr and I feel like I just started in the middle.

I agree with this. I’m running CasaOS on a Pi4. Having the initial ease of one click installs gives you a great start, then you’ll start to find that you need to manage some port assignments, then you’ll start learning about Docker environment variables, then you’ll be managing custom installs.

Awesome-Selfhosted is a great resource. Just browse and try something interesting.

My own recent journey went like this:

Run AdGuard Add DokuWiki, Navidrome, Mealie Set up Cloudflare Tunnels Add FreshRSS, Homer, SearchXNG

I also have Nextcloud on a VPS, but the fun is on the Pi.

Thanks! It just threw an error at me when I launched it, but I’ll see what I can do. Based of the warnings in the admin panel, there isn’t anything critical for me to address, I just hate that orange.

Since it’s winter and I mostly don’t want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I’ve ever gotten with any of this and it’s been going great. Nearly every hurdle I’ve encountered I’ve been able to work through.

Two things causing me grief today though:

1. I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn’t found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.

2. I’m using Homer because it’s just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.

More interactive than CYOA, more restrictive than traditional text adventures. Kind of point-and-clicky. IDK. I’m intrigued and will keep an eye on it. I hope they release the SDK well in advance of launch at least.

Ah, comment hadn’t federated to piefed, I guess. I had the same feelings as you though. There’s a lot and it just isn’t all that intuitive.

I’ve been using Ionos for things for like 10 years now. I’ve had a medium VPS running for a couple years and just spun up an XS last night. No issues!

I’ve been working through similar struggles for the past week. Just unusably slow speeds off network whether through a Cloudflare tunnel, Wireguard, or direct. I’m going to have to break down today and actually call my ISP to see what I can do.

I recently saw AdventureLog, is that along the lines of what you’re looking for?

https://github.com/seanmorley15/AdventureLog

Not only do I put my cart away, I will take a few extra seconds to organize a couple carts that have just been pushed in all willy nilly (my grocery store has 2 sizes of cart). Like if I can take 30 seconds out of my life to make some else’s day just a little bit easier, I definitely will.

It’s like they got all the way through “Elephant” before they realized that “Man” wouldn’t work to balance the title on either side of the top hat, so they just tossed it on.

Backdrops is usually my go-to. I also used Tapet happily for a long time.

She’s so good and underrated.

And 1990s Tanya Donnelly…She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.