I have to admit I was surprised I couldn’t find anything. It seems like the technology should exist, like it should be a relatively common thing people want, and it doesn’t sound overly complicated.

I found a reddit post talking about it and most people used a spread sheet or a notebook!

Perhaps the Energise app might be enough? https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/

It’s on F-Droid, but is an app and not self-hosted. It also isn’t really what you’re looking for I don’t think, but I’m not aware of anything like what you describe.

Under activitypub, a lemmy community is kind of like a user (actually an activitypub group). When I post here with my lemmy.nz account to this lemmy.world community, lemmy.nz sends my comment to lemmy.world who then sends it to sh.itjust.works for you to see. The community is the controller of all interactions within the community. In this case, lemmy.world is the official source of how many upvotes this post has. And each vote is validated using the user’s public key to ensure it actually came from that specific user - a standard part of ActivityPub.

So would lemmy.world assign a token for your votes? If your instance assigned the token, Lemmy.world would not be able to validate against your user’s public key. If Lemmy.world assigns the token, it would only be valid in lemmy.world communities, as other instances would have to assign their own token. And both sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world admins could still see the real association.

Also, changing how votes work would break compatibility with other ActivityPub software (e.g. Mastodon could no longer interpret an upvote as a favourite, Mbin would’t be able to retrieve any data about the votes unless they specifically changed to work in the Lemmy way instead of using standard ActivityPub).

How does this work? The community issues federates votes but with a linked token instead of a linked user? How do you track vote manipulation across different communities on different instances?

Admins need to know if the votes/likes coming in are legitimate, else they should block them. It’s too easy to abuse anonymous votes to affect how content is ranked.

This is a very real problem right now. Admins that are on to it use the votes to identify swarms of users that follow each other around upvoting each other’s spam/troll posts.

Yeah, you can use Beeper but they require you to have Google messages installed.

I’m still running the old version of Beeper that did SMS without pairing it to Google’s RCS, though I don’t think I can get away with it for too much longer as it’s not getting updates anymore (the two versions coexisted for a period).

I don’t really understand it, but I think you can apply your argument to anything. Why watch Game of Thrones, how does that affect your life? Why browse Lemmy, how does that affect your life? Why play video games, how does that affect your life? Why watch sports, how does it affect your life?

The answer is probably something like “because I enjoy it”, and the answer for the gossipers is probably the same. So who am I to judge.

There’s a community fork of Kbin called Mbin. See https://joinmbin.org

Haha could have called it “where do people live?”

Reminds me of this xkcd (the US map even looks the same as the OP)

What’s the chances AI wrote that?

Not really. Spies need a handler. If no one can know then you can’t tell anyone the secrets so you’re a terrible spy.

I’m not sure I really get what you are looking for when you say “selfhosted”.

Yes there are self-hosted music platforms, but you bring your own music files.

Maybe you are looking for something like Spotube (available on F-Droid) that let’s you download music (I believe it uses Spotify search then downloads the music from YouTube).

Or maybe you just need to find a tool to download music from Spotify (like zotify) then put them into a self hosted music platform like Navidrome or Jellyfin?

From what I’ve read, I would not trust any process other than the takeout process. Do the album thing to split it up.

Can you do one album at a time? Select the albums you want to download, then do that file. Then do the next few albums. That way you have direct control over the data you’re getting in each batch, and so you’ll have a week to get that batch instead of having to start again if the whole thing didn’t finish in a week.

From a search, it seems photos are no longer accessible via Google Drive and photos downloaded through the API (such as with Rclone) are not in full resolution and have the EXIF data stripped.

Google really fuck over anyone using Google Photos as a backup.

Huh. I have a new answer. I think selecting all or none do the same thing.

Select them all. Not sure what you mean by the X though.

So you keep an encrypted backup at work with the decryption key at home, and an encrypted backup at home with the decryption key at work?

But if your encryption keys to your offsite backup are on-site only, doesn’t that make your offsite backup worthless in the case where “offsite” is important?

If your house burns down, you don’t have your encryption keys to your only backup.

It sounds like you’re going through cars a lot faster than average. Are you sure it didn’t hurt them?