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Mastodon
cells | Mastodon | |
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10 | 1,226 | |
1,668 | 45,916 | |
0.8% | 0.5% | |
9.7 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
Go | Ruby | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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- Are there any self-hosted alternatives to google drive (besides nextcloud)?
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New to home server: probably nuking it
Secure remote access can be facilitated through encrypted tunnels. VPNs, SSH, Cloudflare tunnel, SOCKS, etc. can all be secure ways of remotely accessing network resources. What you use will vary, depending upon the type of access you require and/or prefer. For file management, there are multiple tools for this task - Nextcloud, Seafile, Pydio, Sandstorm, FileRun, and more available for the choosing.
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Dropbox alternative backed by S3/Backblaze
Pydio Cells (https://pydio.com/) is a great open-source selfhosted file sync and sharing alternative to Nextcloud. It supports, and strongly recommends the use of an S3 compatible storage backend. It actually works better with S3 storage than a normal file system storage. It's been completely rewritten in Go using microservices and APIs which makes it faster than Nextcloud (PHP) and Seafile (Python). I've tried it extensively in the last few months where I setup a Min.io S3 server for testing. Here is what I concluded: - Relatively easy to setup, with a step by step guides for Debian, Ubuntu etc. - Clear and well documented admin control panel. - Very clean GUI using Material Design. - Geared more towards enterprise users. - Works 100% with S3 storage.
- What's easier for users than FTP?
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We should move to some open source platform. This place stinks of proprietary software
Lemmy Aether ActivityPub Matrix Friendica Hubzilla PeerTube PixelFed GNU Social Mobilizon Fediverse Mastadon Element Pydio Syncthing IPFS FileCoin
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Need a cloud solution for mobile users not on VPN
As a replacement for owncloud have you considered https://pydio.com/, https://nextcloud.com/ or https://www.seafile.com/en/home/?
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How do I make a Samba server accessible to mobile devices through a web interface?
To offer an alternative to nextcloud, check this out https://pydio.com/
- Any foss alternatives for Microsoft OneDrive?
- Home Server Suggestions
- Pydio cells create folder/file from terminal
Mastodon
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
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Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the world’s top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read).
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.
- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
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Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884
The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.
If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.
The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.
HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.
Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.
Suggestions?
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CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example
Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?
[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
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You Can't Follow Me
Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....
- Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
What are some alternatives?
Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Sandstorm - Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
gotests - Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
Infinity-For-Reddit - A Reddit client for Android
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
awesome-tunneling - List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working