shrugal

A JSON array that looks like this:

[
    {"MusicBrainzId": <id>},
    {"MusicBrainzId": <id>},
    {"MusicBrainzId": <id>},
    ...
]

I use it to fetch my Last.fm and ListenBrainz recommendations for example.

Imo this is not enshitification yet, but I'm concerned it could pave the way! It all depends on whether they make using your own content harder to promote this, or if it's just a side hustle to add another revenue stream.

It would be great, but no chance in hell movie studios would go along with this.

It's similar in name only though. Plexamp has a lot of great features that this one is missing.

For me personally: Something like Arch. I want to spend as little time as possible on installation and configuration, and I don't want to have to read update notes or break my system. But I get that it's great for some people, and their wiki is just next level!

In general: Ubuntu. It feels like I read something about Canonical causing trouble every other week, and don't even get me started on snaps!

I'm no fan of Ubuntu, but maintaining an LTS release and backporting security updates is actual ongoing work. Most distros don't even provide an LTS release for that reason.

I think you can just do grep print **/*.

They want us to search for torrents!

You can avoid the warmup by using an SMTP relay, and you can just use the one from your DNS provider if you're not planning to send hundreds of mails per day.

The url for you would simply be lemmy.world. Just login with your account from the app and start scrolling, no need to migrate anything.

Federation in principle is actually really simple. Basically there are multiple servers (aka instances) run by different people and with their own urls, and they just send each other messages to stay in sync. E g. if you post something on LW, that server also sends it to all the others (all it is federated with), so they can show it to their users too. If someone upvotes the post then their server sends that info to all the other servers as well, so everyone can update their vote counter for that post. That's it, that's the magic.

The result is that all instances have the same content, and users can message each other no matter what instance they are on. That means it doesn't really matter which one you sign up on, and no content is lost if one of them goes down.

The biggest thing is probably that you'll have to pay for things if you want something that's ethical and preserves your privacy, either a paid service or some initial investment into self-hosting (what I did). It's 100% worth it imo though, being mostly free from big tech feels really nice!

More specifically, I can highly recommend getting a Synology NAS and your own domain name. They have great replacements for many Google apps, and you can also try out open source alternatives with Docker.