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Tbh the 196 drama was more fun to be here for than when I logged in on 12/30 to see Dansup had been having a meltdown for six hours straight over 3rd party apps
He's deleted everything now, as he should have. But the damage is done.
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I'm at least somewhat understand the 196 drama, but who is this why is he melting and what those apps are 3rd party to???
I'm not familiar with the drama itself, but dansup is the creator of both Pixelfed and Loops.video.
Probably people complaining his app PixelFed isn't working well. I tried it yesterday and it's not ready for usage yet. Unless it was just the server I was on. But launching a social media app without dark mode is fucking dumb so low-key annoyed dansup wants to suck his own dick while blinding me.
So he made a social site, with a public API for third-party apps, and wrote his own app for it because it needed one. The app he wrote in React Native, a framework that lets you use JavaScript to make an app for both iOS and Android which uses native elements and sort of feels like a native app made specifically for the platform (it’s going to be slower and laggier, but not as much as a web app wrapped in a web view). The app was lacking in fit and finish (one gets the impression that he’s not primarily a mobile developer), with things like dark mode missing and annoyances such as navigation being a bit wonky, as well as the usual React Native jank. It works, but doesn’t feel slick or polished, let alone like the shot over the bow of Instagram it’s touted at. Which is understandable, and hopefully it’ll improve with ongoing development.
Then someone takes advantage of the open API for third-party apps and writes a native client that feels slicker and more polished. Dan takes it as a personal insult and loses his shit.
Haha. I made an open source thing. Hey wait no. Not like that!!!
Lemmy had the same problems, mostly solved with some indexing and caching so far. It's gonna be fun when Lemmy needs to start partitioning and tiered storage, which it absolutely will when costs start to add up. Hosting an instance isn't getting cheaper
Yep. Was talking to a friend about setting up a team speak server when their new app drops but I'm not sure what the costs would look like for a stable server. Or if I could just run it on my local server.
I mean, that kinda goes against the self hosted ethos, but it'd probably run fine on Oracle always free.
Like, I host everything on my local server, but I've got symmetrical gigabit, and all my user (family, some friends) are on my tailscale network.
If your friends are willing to use tailscale, or something like that (you can do most of what tailscale does yourself, but that involves quite a bit of work), it'd be pretty easy to host at home. There are several ways to make whatever you host reachable from the public internet, but that usually makes everything a much bigger hassle.
My power costs for my server (Ryzen 5 3600, GT710, 16 GB RAM, 10TB storage) are usually 10-15€ a month, which is worth it to me. You could do a lot with a way lower spec CPU, but that's what I had lying around.