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What is a service you host you never knew you needed? (k.fe.derate.me)

submitted 1 year ago by Guadin@k.fe.derate.me to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you've been missing out.

For me it's not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it's great. I probably can't find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I've gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that's not what it is intended for.

What is that service for you?

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[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A puppeting (personal account) Discord bridge basically requires your own homeserver. You are trusting the homeserver owner / bridge host fully with your Discord account.
It is technically against Discord ToS. While I don't think anyone's been banned yet, several people have started receiving warnings that they "spammed", most of them after sending an attachment. These warnings are on your account for 2 years, and could contribute to an account ban.
Voice chat is not, and probably will not be supported.
Do NOT bridge a "large" server. You are essentially re-hosting the chats, which can be extremely taxing for large and active Discord servers.

I use mine for a single channel in a "medium-size" server (~2k people), a friend group server, DMs, and a few channels that follow a bunch of announcement channels on other servers.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those are certainly valid points. But do I want to care about that? Honest question... Discord also doesn't care about my privacy. Or making the internet a better place. So I think -in turn- I feel quite alright to ignore whatever client they like me to use. And their exact ToS.

What's with the "taxing for large and active Discord servers"? Does it lead to issues if I'm not using their Electron app or website? I can't imagine where this additional strain on their servers would come from?! I run my own homeserver, by the way. So I shouldn't weigh down on anyone else's server...

[–] stalfoss@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you use the official discord client, it only sends to your device whatever chat channel you have open at the time, and when you click on a different channel, it just downloads the last 20 messages, and downloads more when you scroll etc. If you bridge a discord server to a matrix server, it sends all of the contents of all of the channels in real time across. If the server had 50 channels, bridging it to matrix would be the equivalent of you having 50 official clients open, one to each channel. Hence the additional load on discord’s side to send you a lot more data than they usually would.

(Disclaimer: this is all conjecture based on a general understanding of how the systems work, I could be getting some details wrong)

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for explaining. That makes perfect sense. I was under the impression there might be something else.

I'm not interested in forwarding spam in the first place. I don't think I have any use of channels where messages just fly by... So I think I should be safe.