I know there are different use cases for each, but generally do people prefer self hosted nextcloud, proton docs, or libre office?

I don't own P3 Reloaded, but is this sort of like the additional content that usually comes in Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal? Shouldn't this have been included in the P3 Reloaded release?

For those that want an RTS game that doesn't require a high APM, I'd recommend Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (FAF) and the Sins of a Solar Empire Games (which requires an even lower APM).

I was thinking what if we switched to a fediverse Youtube replacement, such as PeerTube. However, I don't think this would work. For one, because there are no ads, there's no money being made, and creators would have to be backed by donations. Not sure how much money that would bring in.

Additionally, the difference between a "creator" on lemmy/subreddit (creating a community) vs a "creator" on youtube (uploads videos) is that I can be a creator without hosting an instance here. Looks like if I wanted to upload videos to PeerTube, I'd need to make my own instance or pay for one. Maybe if there was an option to select an instance just like here on lemmy, but videos take waaayy more disk space and processing to stream than text and a few images. Could be cool to host yourself though.

I see why they recommend not using SQLite lol.

Deezer (paid for flac - lossless files) + Deemix-gui + Jellyfin + Symfonium works quite well. Though you need to have a media server, so not exactly a drop-in replacement.

Meanwhile.. At r/selfhosted...

Good perspective, thanks.

Are they on Deezer? If so, look into deemix-gui.

I think that is more complicated, as the channels need to generate revenue. Additionally, videos take up much more storage, and there is no option to select an instance like Lemmy. I only see options to selfhost.

That's fair. I'm making the comparison to other hobbies. If someone is not interested in roller skating, but decides to try it out because one of their friends really likes it and invites them, they may find they enjoy it... or not, which in that case they won't go again, which is fine. Alternatively, they find a new hobby they enjoy, and selfhosting could give skills that turn into a potential career, but that's if they really enjoy it. I don't think it's uncommon for friend groups to have outsiders (me) and "force" them into trying new things, but maybe my comparison doesn't hold up here as this is a bit less about socializing.

So if I made my own Lemmy instance, and subscribed to !selfhosted, does that mean if Lemmy.world went down, the !selfhosted community is still up?

So if I only run one Matrix/Synapse instance for my private group, does any of the matrix decentalized technology effect me? I would only have one instance, and my users will probably only be connected to my instance. Though if I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like if I subscribed to another instance, all of the chat communication on that entire instance is copied to my server as well? Does this include files? Sounds like it would use a lot of extra disk space.

You're right, thanks.

Thank you for the compilation, I'll take a look at these.

My main point was that if there's one subreddit that should of migrated fully to lemmy... it would be them. Practice what you preach. Granted they are probably one of the larger communities here on lemmy.

I'm not too familiar with roon. As for proper metadata, I've not had any problems with MusicBrainz's metadata grabber. It's a built-in plugin that comes with Jellyfin. Deemix uses your deezer account, which I believe requires the paid version if you want lossless flac files, and I have it configured to place the files in my Media share, which Jellyfin reads from. Symfonium is the android client I use that works with selfhosted media servers.

Haven't tested it, but I'm hoping Kodi works well. I'm waiting on my Vero V to arrive, which comes with OSMC (FOSS linux distro made to run Kodi).

My group is on Teamspeak. They are supposedly adding it this year, but it's been radio silence for months.

I haven't built one myself, but you could look into TrueNas.

I've had issues with duckdns failing over the past year or so (their server going down - outages). I guess it could be something on my side, but it happened often enough that I switched to my own domain. Haven't had any outages since, and I can use subdomains now for routing.

No, development is still stalled. You need to pay if you want the really high bit rate flac downloads. I pay and can use Deezer as a backup to Jellyfin in the event there's a song I don't have and I'm driving. I was looking at music fab, but it's expensive, the Spotify downloader has worse quality, and doesn't grab the cover art, which is probably a deal breaker for me.

Thanks for the detailed reply!

Thanks!

So if lemmy.ml subscribed to lemmy.world, and world shut down with no warning, provided you aren't a lemmy.world account, you can still access and make content on the world communities? Has this been tested?

100% Symfonium is awesome.

I have no issues with Jellyfin + Symfonium, but I also cache my songs offline. I almost never play a track that hasn't been downloaded.

For backup power, you got like a generator for the server, or the whole building?

Do you know if this happens the other way around? A user chats with a different server and that chat is synced to my server. Can I use federation without allowing others to join mine outside my group? Because otherwise, it sounds like my server's data will be copied to a different server.

Ah, you know more than me then lol. Keep up the great work, glad to be a supporter!

I use the former. How does it compare to the other two?

Thanks for hosting Lemmy.world! Does Lemmy use a database? Until the software gets horizontal scaling capability, could we use a central RDS so the load isn't on the EC2 instance's CPU? Then we can use load balancing between multiple instances that pull from the same DB? Obviously, the db instance is still a limiting factor.

True.. But are people reviewing open source software and code to make sure they aren't malicious? I'm not. I haven't looked at the Lemmy code once, just saw there was a repo.

I think the bigger issue is what motivates the dev. If it's freeware, then the project probably isn't backed by greed VS passion. In saying that, I paid $3 for an android music app (Symfonium) and it's closed source. I absolutely love it way more than plex Amp and the dev is active. I have no issues with closed source unless development halters.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure this out from a high availability standpoint. I guess the next question would be if all the servers are operating on the same out-of-sync server, probably not, as those servers aren't connected together, they are just connected to the now-offline server. I wonder if the server comes back up if it propagates or trys to re-sync. Seems like we would have issues either way, and the best bet is finding an instance with good availability.

I was kind of hoping that if an instance subscribed to another instance's community, then the originating instance can go down without effecting the community because another instance is now acting as the backup.

I'm also concerned if Lemmy as an application can support a large user base.

They released an update yesterday for TS3, allowing connection to TS5 servers I think, and breaking the Soundboard lol. TS5 is in closed-beta, right? I would think release would be within a year, but I'm not sure. Also, last I checked, I was reading mixed results on the platform, but I haven't been able to use it myself.

I looked into nginx for minecraft, but minecraft doesn't use http headers, so I'd have to open minecraft ports on the router. Would this alleviate that? What's the difference between this setup and using something like a cloudflare tunnel? Obviously, there is still some reliance on Cloudflare.