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Betteridge’s law suggests no

It does, and I’m sure everyone will welcome a solution that lets them open things back up for those users without the abusers crippling them. It’s a matter of finding one.

This is a stopgap while we try to find a new way to stop the DDOS happening right now. It might even be adapted to do useful work, if need be.

Gotcha. Less difficulty and more just not matching up with expectations.

No, but the software that implements it also implements ActivityPub, so you can get nomadic identity and also still interact with the rest of the Fediverse.

I just wish Hubzilla wasn’t a UX nightmare.

How is Mastodon harder? (Legit question, not snark)

The cobbler’s sons go barefoot.

Identity was already solved with Zot aka Nomad, which is part of the Fediverse and easier to implement than ATProto.

It’s mostly been ignored because it’s just not that important to people, apparently.

IIRC, yes but it’s called differently. I’ve used that technique to work around nannyware a time or two.

I like the FreeBSD option because Beastie, but also GuixSD for something truly different.

You’re technically correct, but missing the point of the post. Canonical is withholding a security patch to extort a subscription.

For a second, I misread this and thought Rockbox had a desktop port.

I’d use something that already exists:

• https://life-notes.fr/
• https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy
• https://github.com/BabyTracker/baby-tracker

The focus of the latter two is slightly off, but it would work.

Actually, I’d probably not add a use-specific thing unless I needed something specific it offered. I’d just pop up another page on our shared wiki to track things, or put it in a synced note app.

Depends on your platform. I don’t know about drop in calls, tho.

That’s where a Ulysses pact can help: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

Syncthing is another nice option for syncing Obsidian notes.

You’ll want to use Syncthing-fork on Android.

XMPP, but unironically

If they’re courting buyers, it’s already dead. It’s just not started to stink yet.