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That wouldn’t be cool. At all.

I’d prefer to go in the other direction (i.e. away from permissive) and add a ‘no fascists or tankies or genocide’ clause to AGPL, actually. ChatGPT assures me that would be bad and possibly illegal (?!) tho, so I might just end up putting stuff in the code of conduct which achieves the same ends.

My first instinct is to go for AGPL but the whole licensing debate isn’t something I’ve ever really engaged with so I’m not really making an informed decision about that.

What’s the advantages of a more permissive license?

I’m building a Lemmy/Kbin clone, using Python (Flask framework). I’m about 3 months in so the basics are there but it’s definitely still half-baked…

If this sounds like something you’d like to contribute to, pop your email address into this form https://rimu.geek.nz/piefed-comms/?p=subscribe and I’ll keep you in the loop!

Check out Matomo

There are many foss options in the F-Droid store.

You could use it as part of your infrastructure. E.g. DNS server, database server, redis server, file server. But running the whole stack will be too much unless you upgrade the RAM. 1 GB minimum, preferably 2.

That feeling when you need a Trello board to keep track of all the prosecutions. Love it.

Recently I was doing some Azure integration work, with OAuth, Teams and Outlook. At one point I noticed that logging in with a MS account causes my browser to do ~10 redirects between different services while downloading over 30 MB of Javascript and thought “Huh, this looks like decades of technical debt. Either MS devs are waaay smarter than me or this is a pile of garbage”. I guess both could be true.

Wow, that is pretty nice. Thanks!

Don’t engage with them. Report and block.

I would again. The mistake was continuing with it for too long.

15 years ago when I got into PHP, Python wasn’t as mature as it is now for web development. There was Django but Ruby on Rails was similar and more popular. At the time, PHP had a vibrant open source community and lots of options. It was the right choice for the moment but things have moved on. PHP got stuck trying to make PHP 6 and spun it’s wheels while Python went from strength to strength.

The time to bail on PHP was probably around or before 2015. The writing was on the wall by then. But it wasn’t until 2019 that I got into Python.

These days all my PHP work is maintenance and migration, all new work is Python-based.

“TruthGPT”, lol. Is that what you get when your training data set is 4chan and Gab posts?

I was a bit nervous about this too but I just set up a kbin instance on ARM (nginx, php, postgres, redis, and more) and didn’t notice any difference. Totally straightforward. And the VPS costs half as much as the x86 equivalent from the same host.

Oh, yes, the chattiness of the ActivityPub protocol could very well become a problem and some sort of network topology will need to be designed. Without a fediverse-wide governance structure, that could be difficult!

Welcome!

I set up an instance recently. I found that as soon as a couple of other people joined the instance and started subscribing to groups there was more than enough content coming in.

There are only so many communities to join and once one person joins something the entire server benefits. So it feels much less lonely than a small mastodon instance. No real need for a relay.

Not only that, they create a ‘shadow’ profile of you even if you don’t have any meta accounts at all.

https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-have-account-888699

Proton Mail has been around for a long time and has a good reputation.

If you want to try self-hosting email (lol), mailcow is supposed to be very easy to set up.