Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m not OP and am a dev, but also prefer flat files. Here’s my reasoning:

    • versioning - I use snapshots in my filesystem (BTRFS), which is more than enough, and have a git hosting solution for things I care about more
    • sync is plenty fast on OCIS and Samba, it’s just kinda slow on Nextcloud; I’m sure Seafile is better, but it’s not something I do frequently anyway, especially since backups from devices is automatic and uses a different, fast system
    • incremental - not my use case, most of my files either never change (movies) or are small (text flees)

    My main concerns with Seafile specifically are:

    • developed by a Chinese company and doesn’t seem particularly open to contributions
    • mostly written in C, so there’s a good chance of security vulnerabilities
    • documentation about the disk format isn’t very open, so third party tools don’t really exist
    • main target is larger orgs, so I’m unlikely to get very good support

    With flat files, I can easily switch to a different service if my needs change.


  • Here’s what I’ve used and can recommend:

    • samba - just a network share
    • Nextcloud - full featured cloud suite (calendar, contacts, etc)
    • owncloud infinite scale (OCIS) or the Euro fork [Open Cloud]{https://opencloud.eu/en) - the POSIX driver has a flat file structure and still supports users and shared data; OCIS is designed for larger installations, but running on a smaller, single instance totally works too

    Since you rejected NextCloud, check out the other two. I’m switching from NextCloud to OCIS right now, and I may end up using OpenCloud if development looks stable.




  • I assume you’re talking about Kauffman, who is the founder of LBRY, but that relationship ended when LBRY lost a lawsuit and Odysee was acquired. It is decentralized, using arweave for video hosting and a blockchain for video metadata.

    The main issue w/ Odysee is its near complete lack of moderation, which allows extremists, conspiracy theorists, and other undesirables to earn money. This is because Odysee gives creators the power to moderate their channels, unlike YouTube where most of that is reserved for the platform itself. Odysee is about as free-speech as you get, and that unfortunately allows less desirable content.

    My understanding is that Odysee is essentially what you get if you have P2P (not federated) PeerTube w/ a profit motive.









  • People keep saying they want an alternative to YouTube, but then reject every alternative that exists.

    Odyssee and other YouTube alternatives tend to host far right content because that content was banned on YouTube, so those creators flocked to the alternative platforms. The sites themselves aren’t exactly encouraging that content, it’s just where people end up due to the loose rules. The best way to fight extremism on an alternative platform is to post less extreme content and drown out the less desirable content.

    That’s basically what happened here on Lemmy. At the start, it was mostly tankies and far left extremists, and gradually it became more mainstream as more mainstream leftists ditched Reddit and joined Lemmy.

    If you want an alternative to YouTube to succeed, you need to use alternative platforms that already exist.