I hope it is going to be ok. Automattic has been involved with matrix before. Time will tell, but I’m more hopeful than afraid.
I tried to compare some backup solutions a while back: https://hedgedoc.ptman.name/kket4uo9RLiJRnOhkCzvWw#
Forget about docker. Run caddy or some similar webserver that is a single file next to the assets to serve.
How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.
I would also welcome decent micropayments (maybe digieuro?), so that you wouldn’t need to subscribe, but could pay 0.045€ for something without it being unfeasible because of fixed transaction costs.
My point exactly. Why do we get ads on something we pay for with money?
I can only approve of people paying for services they use. It isn’t free to run. But there are several things to consider:
Another surge on mastodon? Countries, cities, public organisations should put up their own mastodon like EU, BBC and Germany have.
Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.
https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.
Sweden is a monarchy, they have a king, not a president. But in this case it seems to be the prime minister
Riot games forced them to change the name.
Got bought
cryptpad si quite good
Gandi is no longer a good choice
Thanks to sliding sync this is very snappy compared to old element.
Element X is built on the rust SDK which should support multiple accounts. https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/discussions/1832
I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.
what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?
Quite far: