It sure does, and I am mentally prepared to move over to Hugo. I just haven’t had the inner calmness needed to do so just yet, and I probably won’t in the near future. At least I could still use WordTsar for it!

There is an impressive array of reasons to dislike Automattic and their software. My introduction was meant to avoid a lengthy discussion about those, because it would exceed the scope of my post. Alas, I failed.

If you prefer Rust, yaydl (disclosure: I wrote it) would be an alternative to yt-dlp. (Patches welcome - right now, I much depend on Invidious to get YouTube contents.)

+1 for Beets - awesome software!

Maybe there were days when all Usenet servers had all hierarchies. I’m probably too young.

In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.

Usenet was never really “federated”. All servers mirror slightly different hierarchies (with the free ones usually focusing on text and the commercial ones focusing on binary files).

What server do you use?

I’ve been a happy user of Eternal September (the name alone was awesome enough!) for quite some time now.

I still use it as forums.

I wish Usenet wasn‘t misunderstood as a file sharing network anymore.

And it still does not support my server.

Not yet.

No. Git is inefficient for small numbers of files. Just do a “find | wc” and/or a “du -hs” in your repository folder. SVN exists for a reason.

Git might be over engineered for this purpose. Maybe SVN?

I keep my server backups on a dedicated backup server.

I run OpenBSD and OmniOS.

Docker does not even work on my servers - wrong operating system, I guess. Docker containers have one more disadvantage on systems where it does work: the contents of a container aren’t updated when the host operating system is, basically leaving 0-days unpatched longer than absolutely necessary.

Also, using a container adds severe overhead.

IMO, Unison is a pretty good software for this use case.

Anyway, thank you for creating a debloated tool.

That’s what I was aiming at. I hope I succeeded.

Don’t worry - users are good enough for me. Not everyone needs to be a contributor. ;-)

Dude loves efficient software. So quirky! 🤪

(But yes, I am a quirky fellow.)

Because the existing software sucks.

I update my servers with pkg_add -u. No reason to over complicate things.

With the one requirement that you need to pick an DNS server which doesn’t mess with the results. But that’s not a huge issue, there are quite some uncensored DNS servers out there. Like the OpenNIC ones for example.

I know, and some of them have quite some latency, while others may or may not start censoring and/or logging my requests in the future. The downside is that having my own DNS server outside my LAN doesn’t make much sense, because (you’re right!) my home internet connection is struggling to keep up with the major providers, as is my hardware. However, at, I’ve just checked, an average of just under 2,000 requests per hour, it’s more than feasible.

There’s a good chance that the operators won’t even notice my requests, especially because my cache is filling up fast.

And I think it’s really a shame that lots of ISPs mess with the DNS results and introduce third-party blocklists. Mine does that, too.

This. Very much this.