I mean all the plug-ins should work

“Blonde” was one of their early attempts at this. They know when the story is losing you so then they have a few minutes of Ana De Armas topless, fapping, etc to get your attention back.

Own your notifications or they will surely own you.

My favorite sites for actual ebooks are Humble Bundle and Fantastic. But these are predominantly tech books. No idea where I’d get good fiction in epub today.

Addendum: that specific site is dog shit. Imagine thinking you just bought an ebook but instead you bought a lease to some DRM shit that only works on their app.

EPUB or GTFO.

Other fediverse platforms have had it for awhile. Not sure why so many feel so stuck with Mastodon. There are alternatives.

Why do young people pop into a community that has been around for decades and wonder why the old people who built it are still around?

I’m looking forward to after all this mess is over, all of the felony charges that he’s going to get hit with just for what he’s been up to the past few weeks.

.us is often fun.

I guess I’ve just experienced too many times the pain of a sqlite database getting corrupted.

Think of it more like a push notification server than a messaging platform. You would need a service that sends push notifications to Gotify topics. I get the sense that under the covers it works a lot like MQTT where you have apps publishing messages to topics, and you have consumers (in my case, iGotify app on iOS) that pull those messages off the topic and present them to the user as push notifications.

Though… I think I need a better iOS client than iGotify. It’s not actually giving me any push notifications so it’s missing the whole point for me.

It’s got an open API so really there’s a lot more than my own use case.

I’m using it right now for getting notifications from flows in ActivePieces (I don’t want to get spammy with my site, which is the link in the original post, but there’s a how-to on getting that up and running also… ActivePieces is like a self-hosted Zapier)

I’m very comfortable in Docker and honestly most of the software out there in the Fediverse is weird. Like they make containerized deployments much more convoluted than they are supposed to be.

GoToSocial is maybe the least bad that I’ve tried so far. Most of the more popular ones are, IMO, really really bad on this front.

I’ve had their Stans counter this but then they point me to the process that they followed and it’s like something out of a Hogwart’s spell book compared to what most self hosted containerized apps are like.

I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.

I have a few things going on. I’ve been blogging some of my notes on how I’m getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there’s not a ton yet. Hopefully there’s something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/