I ran PhotoPrism on my home server for awhile but realized it was a bit overkill for my use case. Now I just use my NAS server’s built in photo gallery app (QNAP Photo Station), in which I can create shared albums that I can expose to the internet with Caddy server acting as reverse proxy and an extra authentication layer. I have a custom domain that hosts the photo gallery so I can copy and paste a magic URL plus login credentials into a Signal chat to anyone who asks (and whom I trust).

I’m using ProtonMail with my own domain, DuckDuckGo, self-hosted photo album, Firefox and PC/iOS devices. The only thing I have a Google account for is for a paid YouTube subscription, which I use in a Firefox container tab.

I’d like to think I’m pretty degoogled, but due to network effects, I’m probably not. Everyone I send email to has a Gmail address, every web page I visit has Google Analytics (which Firefox may or may not block, I cannot be sure about that) and most people who have my phone number have it stored on their Android device. So Google gets a shit ton of data about me indirectly, regardless of whether I consent to it or not.

Right, does that mean the publication that wants to embed tweets gets their own API key and uses that to embed tweets, or is it just some anonymous HTTP request to Twitter’s REST API? If it’s the former, then yeah, it should continue to work.

I wonder what happens to embedded tweets since they are the basis of approximately 80% of journalism these days. Either journalists will have to start screenshotting the tweets, or if that’s against Twitter’s TOS, actually start doing their fucking jobs as journalists and write out the content of the tweet in their own words.

Thanks for reminding me of Edith Finch, I have to replay that one ASAP. 2010s was really good era for indie games. What Remains of Edith Finch, Firewatch, Gone Home and Night in the Woods are all solid 10/10s.

I self-host Matrix/Conduit for family chat, but I honestly wouldn’t recommend it for your use case. The problem is that Matrix stores all image/video data on the server and doesn’t compress it in any way. So if you’re using a something like a cheap VPS with 50GB of storage, it will fill up immediately.

By hosting Matrix on-prem you’ll get a lot more of storage space, but you will run into the same issue eventually.

I would use Matrix for text-only (or text-mostly) communications and some other solution, like syncthing suggested here, for file transfer or photo gallery use.

Ooh, this is a good one. I had already forgotten about this. The original game was really good, but the sequels were kinda all over the place.

For small communities migrating away from a subreddit might be pretty difficult because they’re already very scattered as is and active only sporadically. And Reddit has a really long tail of those.

I can’t speak highly enough of the original Life is Strange game. Although I cannot possibly replay it because I don’t want to feel those feelings again.