23, Sysadmin, Vegan
Fediverse: https://calckey.braydmedia.de/@brayd
Fully agree. That’s also the main reason I am using Notion even though it’s not FOSS, not encrypted etc.
I was fine using Obsidian (even though it’s not FOSS either, but you own your data) but I can’t figure out a good way to track books and quotes plus my opinion about them while querying them the same way it works in the database with Notion. Dataview is great for many things but doesn’t have pagination etc.
With DS-Lite you don’t have a public IPv4. Not a static one but also not a dynamic one. The ISP just gives you a public IPv6. You share your IPv4 address with other users. This is done to use less IPv4s. But not having a dynamic IPv4 causes you to be unable to use DynDNS etc. It’s simply not possible.
You could publish your stuff via IPv6 only but good luck accessing it from a network without IPv6.
You could also spin up tunnels with SSH actually between a public server and the private one (yes SSH can do stuff like that) but that’s very hard to manage with many services so you’re better of building a setup like mine.
I had the same issue. Wrote another comment here explaining my setup to solve my ISP issue.
I had everything behind my LAN, but published things like Nextcloud to the outside after finally figuring out how to do that even without a public IPv4 (being behind DS-Lite by my provider).
I knew about Cloudflare Tunnels but I didn’t want to route my stuff through their service. And using Immich through their tunnel would be very slow.
I finally figured out how to publish my stuff using an external VPS that’s doing several things:
Then my servers at home just connect to the VPS as VPN clients so there’s a direct tunnel between the VPS and the home servers.
Now when I have an app running on 8080 on my home server, I can set up nginx so that the domain points to the VPS public IPv4 and IPv6 and that one routes the traffic through the VPN tunnel to the home server and it’s port using the IPv4 of the VPN tunnel. The clients are configured to have a static IPv4 inside the VPN tunnel when connecting to the VPN server.
Took me several years to figure out but resolved all my issues.
I am younger than 25, but I’m a Sys-Admin.
However my mother also uses the Fediverse and has nearly to none technical knowledge.
Also my cousin who’s 15 uses it. And some friends of mine who are between 18 to 26 use it without being what you typically would call a nerd.
So I think for the majority it applies but there are also people here not fitting in this sector.
Yes I did. Doesn’t change something now besides that they’re instantly defederated as soon as they enable Activity Pub support
For me I personally decided to block it because I made a poll and most of my users decided to block it. Also, after 24 hours we can see that moderation is not that good which is why I’d defederate from it as from any other instance that doesn’t match with the rules of my own server at all. But that is really the good thing about the Fediverse. Being that flexible.
It makes Threads less attractive for people using it because they „can follow people from Mastodon too“. So maybe through that a few people will decide to register in the Fediverse on any other platform rather than using Threads for it. If we only get a few people with that I’m fine with it tbh.
Mastodon is very Twitter like. It’s focus is on implementing the main features and it’s just the software most users use. Then there’s also other software like Misskey (and Calckey (which I run on my server) as well as some other fork of which I’ve forgotten the name). Misskey (and its forks) implement additional features that Mastodon doesn’t have and don’t use the Mastodon API. So using Mastodon apps with them won’t work as good. There are Misskey apps though.
My personal opinion is, that Misskey and Calckey have a better and more modern approach in regards to UI/UX-Design. However that’s subjective. Misskey and Calckey also have additional features like longer posts (3000 characters per default with Calckey), pages, clips, drive and much more. Misskey and Calckey also use Reactions instead of “Favorites” which means that if you react with a 🎉 emoji to a post users on Misskey and Calckey will see that emoji as a reaction. Mastodon users will just see it as a favorite (so as a star).
In general I used Mastodon for quite a while and switched to running my own Calckey server at calckey.braydmedia.de
Yes, I have tested Logseq and even donate to them monthly. However I don’t use it actively. Reason is that I just can’t figure out a way to store my quotes and my opinion about them from books the same way I do it in Notion.
Basically I store my quotes like this:
Inside each quote I write my opinion or the summary of the quote in my own words, etc.
And then for the books I have it like this:
And inside each book I have the quotes linked:
So yeah I haven’t found any way in Obsidian or Logseq to replicate this structure. It’s always something simliar that’s not working the same way and feels off and only with tweaks, custom CSS and stuff like that.