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When Buy European started it got me immediately hooked into implementing practical changes in my everyday life. One of the first steps was de-googling myself (as much as possible), and with that change my default search engine. For that I built a custom simple start page that offers a European alternative at random https://gohug.eu/

My collection of saved posts, bookmarks, and notes became a bit cumbersome. So I decided to add a bit more to the website and list the main resources, to always come back to. Hope some of you find it helpful too: https://gohug.eu/join/

So here it is. A web devs way of trying to participate and give something back. Cheers

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you so much!****

#1 and #2 are great. Yes... infinity scroll off... can't stop otherwise.

Everything else is not important. Was writing it down here to clear some mental bandwidth.

Excited about RC5.

Thank you so much for your effort! Lemmy web is so much better with your interface.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So strange. Again had the problem with the front page not loading.

Compared with phtn.app (where it works) and my instance throws this error in the browser console:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: https://svelte.dev/e/state_unsafe_mutation
    at yn (Burp0AeU.js:1:1565)
    at ht (Burp0AeU.js:1:3142)
    at Object.set (BVuUeo8K.js:1:2138)
    at CBCAnbRV.js:3:5597
    at Proxy.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at ht (CBCAnbRV.js:3:5386)
    at CBCAnbRV.js:3:6390
    at tn (Burp0AeU.js:1:10095)
    at Rn (Burp0AeU.js:1:5328)
    at Ht (Burp0AeU.js:1:5377)

Logged in with the same user accounts on both instances. Might be a difference between my 2.0.0-rc4 and the bleeding edge code on phtn.app?

Does anyone here use RSS, and do you have any recommendations for feeds to follow? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Mostly subscribed to GitHub repo release feeds. To know which software has updates.

Also some blogs from companies I am interested in.

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Buy European - Thank you (lemm.ee)

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Hey 👋,

I am amazed by what's happening. This community is great.

Two thoughts:

The main reason this whole thing is so exciting for me is because it means change. It's such a great feeling to disrupt old habits and re-evaluate everything that I got so comfy with over the last decades. Please keep your recommendations coming. So much new (and better) alternatives to discover.
While I love "Buy European", in reality my heart realized it's more about "Avoid US". Hey friends from non-European countries!

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I tried Cryptpad and Nextcloud Office Suite and the latter is what I went with.

Two main reasons:

Main issue is that the Cryptpad UX just was inferior to Nextcloud office. Too much wasted space for my taste, dark theme was not great, etc. Dark theme is not 100% on Nextcloud either, but mostly fine.
Cryptpad uses OnlyOffice code for parts of their Sheets implementation. Onlyoffice seems to have obfuscated ties to Russia. Was even removed from the goeuropean database after people found out. Not implying Cryptpad has a backdoor or anything, but their FAQ does not go very deep and don't want to run the risk: https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/FAQ.html#what-is-the-relationship-between-cryptpad-and-onlyoffice TBH I read it as they only use parts for their front end code and did a lot of refactoring / adjustments. I would hope everthing is safe. But together with the inferior UI (personal preference) Nextcloud was the better choice.
Maintenance would also be more time consuming. Might not matter in a bigger business environment (would assume both are the same), but for my personal self-hosting it's easier to run nextcloud office (already running nextcloud since a few years and office was a one-click install instead of a whole separate stack).

Nextcloud does offer different office integrations. I use their Office bundle which can run a bundled small Collabora server (no separate setup needed, one-click install). For my personal self-hosted environment perfect. Would recommend a dedicated collabora instance in business environments.

Collabora itself is based on Libreoffice and their online UX is just amazing. Such a good use of screen real estate. Great product really. As I had Nextcloud already running it was an easy decision.

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Self-hosting exchange (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey 👋

Just started self-hosting photon app a few days ago and am very interested in your experiences?

Running on v2.0.0-rc.4 and just love the UX in comparison to lemmy native. I am experiencing some issues though. Nothing too major. Some issues might be due to me being inexperienced self-hosting. Also don't want to clog github issues with unwarranted claims.

Hope some of you can chime in with your experience here and help me find the root cause. List ordered by personal preference:

Random loading issues when sorting by Hot/Twelve hours. Might be related to my main instance lemm.ee. I think they did change some server settings (cloudflare, DDOS IIRC and downtime a few days ago) and around the same time the issues started. I click my bookmark for the photon front page and the screens stays black with only the logo in the center. If I manually remove the sort setting from my browser local storage it starts working again, but can not select Twelve hours. Happens a few times a day at random. Other times it works. Have not tried to reproduce in phtn.app when it happens, but will the next time. Browser console says failed requests, might be some server-side blocking of lemm.ee? Would be great if photon did catch the exception and show at least the UI instead of the loading screen. You can not navigate anywhere / fix the UI when it was opened with a direct link.
Posts don't refresh after changing sort params, only after hard page refresh. Seems to be an issue - saw it on github already and a comment that this was fixed a few hours ago. => Is there an easy way to run master branch bleeding edge instead of tagged releases? Currently only self-hosting for myself and nobody would notice restarts / downtimes.
Pinned custom menu items gone since the latest stable version. Might have just been dropped on purpose? Could not find an explanation or issue on github though. Was a nice feature.E.g. there seems to be no way to go to the front page other than clicking the photon icon in the top left corner. Or a quick way to jump into my own submissions, etc.
Custom favicon not working I think I set the param right and I see my favicon path inserted into the source code. Path works and image is served if I open it manually in browser. Maybe only if photon is not tied to a single instance?
Minor personal preference: on really large screens it would be great if the top navigation bar would not stretch full screen width, but start and end with the main sidebar & content area. The top left logo and buttons in the top right corner disappear to the very far edges and make photon harder to use.

Looking forward to hear about similar experiences and find out what I'm doing wrong / raise valid issues & feature requests on github.

Edit: Also automatic "mark read" of the inbox notification badge seem to be wonky. Have not had time to debug in detail, but it only works some times. Not that big of a deal though as there is a dedicated "mark all read" buttons.

Edit 2: 2.0.0-rc5 was released a few hours ago and fixes the major two issues. Thank you @[email protected] !

Your Top 5 most impactful product/service switch in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recommend FreeTube on desktop or NewPipe on Android. Tubular = NewPipe with SponsoBlock and Disklike button, but sadly does not get updated that often.

All a bit more work with keeping subscriptions in sync manually, but so much better experience than YouTube native.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

In the digital realm: Reddit and G-Suite were the big ones. Just completed migration of my private accounts. Both 16+ years). Lemmy, Proton + Nextcloud for now. Have not switched my business over yet, but it will be a quick process once I fully commit.

If for any reason Gmail gets blocked in the future there will be many people surprised by not only losing their email, but also access to their external online services (if they need the email address in any way to sign in). Of course also to any data they keep in the Google ecosystem.

EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from €150bn rearmament fund in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can the UK join again? A speedy re-integration would be awesome.

The Pebble Has Been Brought Back in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You are right. I think I read that wrong. I thought automatic segment skipping like YouTube SponsorBlock. You definitely can fast forward using buttons.