Following for interest. It’s the most sketchy social media app I linger on to just to keep in touch with a small handful of folks. It’d be nice to find an alternative client. Last I checked I don’t think there are any revanced/morphe patches for it, though I should check that again.

Yeah this is just an AI slop project by the look of it. Realistically I think fluxer is going to be the “winner” when discord does finally implement age verification, and while even that one’s fairly vibecoded, it doesn’t come close to the levels of AI bullshit in this one.

ErsatzTV is great for this, but it just entered maintenance mode and I don’t think any forks are currently continuing the work. Still, it’ll probably continue to work without issues for a long time.

I mean, I use it myself but I also get why it’s not really mentioned here, being partially closed-source as well and subscription-based on top of that.

Yeah realistically I could set mine up to be accessible behind Pangolin, but it’s the kind of thing I feel more comfortable leaving purely on the LAN. Mostly paranoia.

While it doesn’t quite answer the question, I ended up switching from Keepass to Vaultwarden, with the Bitwarden client on all devices. It only syncs at home or while on my VPN, sure, but Bitwarden stores its data locally so even if I can’t connect to Vaultwarden, I can still grab credentials from the local copy.

I set up Komga for my wife when the initial post about Booklore went up, and it seems to work pretty well and is pretty lightweight. Kobo sync has been seamless. I’ve heard mixed things about its metadata lookup but her library on here is too small so far to notice any issues.

Honestly it feels that way for a while then something new comes along. I just started mine around this time last year, added a NAS and a VPS, and then aside from small tweaks and daily updates there hasn’t been much to do.

But now I’m thinking I want to shrink my single monolithic proxmox VM to separate out some services to their own VMs (one for pihole/unbound, one for very personal services like paperless and actualbudget, one for any exposed services, etc). On top of that, I’m thinking of setting up an additional server or VPS for social media instances and such.

Kinda feels like it comes in waves. Set up a ton of stuff, let it sit for a few months, do it all again

While not explicitly so, FOSS as a concept aligns very closely with far left anti-capitalist principles. The existence of corporate and right-winger-owned FOSS projects is a bit of an oxymoron, but doesn’t discredit the fact that it’s inherently a far left concept.

I set up Komga as soon as the original reddit thread went up about the Booklore dev. Works great, pretty simple, does what it needs to do, and setting up Kobo sync for my wife took all of 5 minutes.

Last I checked it doesn’t keep channels in a server organized and always sorts by recent activity. I may be mistaken but I don’t believe it supported screenshare audio yet either

It’s definitely going to be one of these two. Matrix and XMPP are just too much for casual users, and there’s no one client for either of them which supports all of Discord’s core features.

Out of those two, Fluxer feels like the better choice right now, but I do wish they’d take a stronger stance against LLMs. Stoat feels clunkier, buggier, and feels like it’s getting left behind.

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Mostly ereader integration from what I can tell at the moment. ABS handles epubs and such pretty well at this point.

There is this that popped up the other day, but I haven’t looked into it at all to see if it’s vibecoded or not: https://github.com/fccview/degoog

Man this list is depressing. Good to have handy though. Sad to see SearXNG and a few others on here.

I don’t have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA’s dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn’t really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga’s Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.

I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife’s kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don’t waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.

I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I’ve heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don’t leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it’s handling regular ebooks just fine.

I’ve been mostly happy with SearXNG but customization is a pain point of it for sure, so this looks really promising. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye on this one

It’s kind of funny, I initially tried Authentik and ran into issues getting it working, so I went with Authelia instead, but eventually went back to try Authentik again because I wanted to customize the CSS and felt I was outgrowing Authelia, and it just worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong the first time, but oh well.

I will say though the latest release has a major bug where worker instances are eating up db connections to the point where the entire thing crashes, so while I’ve generally been happy with it, definitely need to do some careful research before blindly upgrading.