Lucky you… I managed to get banned once, for not being “left” enough. So I just don’t engage in specific kind of topics anymore.

ha?!

Hey Canada, just so you know: I’m an European, and I watch “Son of a Critch” and “Shoresy”

Whether these are just lazy excuses or not, but let’s be real for a moment.

Imagine someone, who’s used to go to reddit.com, search for a reddit app in the app store, both of which have the same logo, design, etc… and use their username/password to login and browse the content.

almost every service, that people use for the last decades is based on this specific approach, except for emails. Even the TLD was always .com

Now imagine, how overwhelmed those people might feel, when you tell them “just come over to lemmy”.

Lemmy, where? lemmy.com? Here’s where you then start explaining the different instances, federation, etc…

the next question will be: where’s the Lemmy app? Remember, the unified logo and design? well, good luck explaining that all lemmy apps are de facto third-party-apps.

Now, once they make it throug all of that, the next hurdle that will confuse the hell out of them are the communities scattered all across the instances.

WinRAR

While I really wish for PixelFed to take off, like Mastodon and Lenmy did, the current situation, IMHO, is just confusing to say the least.

So, here are two pixelfed mobile apps, an older one which is just a wrapper of the web version, and a newer polished one.

I’ve the new “polished” one installed for a few months now, and it seemes as if it’s development has stalled. The app just feels unfinished at this point.

Now, I get it, it’s a volunteer project, and there are probably just a handful of people working on it. And this is totally fine, I’m not expecting them to deliver an Instagram clone anytime soon.

However, a few months ago, they announced “Loops”, with pre-signups and some marketing yada yada… All this, while there’s still an unfinished app for their core product. But, I went ahead and signed up, just to find out, it was just crickets for a few months.

Then, recently I logged in again (on the web), and saw an they have an App for Loops which seems to be in the works, and upon testing it, I came to the same conclusion, it’s just an unfinished barebones TikTok.

Again, I’m not ranting about PixelFed, but IMHO, if they want to get serious, they should focus on one thing, until time and resources allow them to explore other things.

I would love to see it succeed as an alternative.

Odin doesn’t play local content, instead it gets the streamable media directly from a debrid service like RealDebrid

It doesn’t. It’s nothing like any of these two. They provide local media content, Odin on the other hand streams media directly provided by the debrid service.

So, no downloading and hoarding involved.

Sure, there is that risk as well…but since it runs in a docker container, it’s easier to pipe all these requests through a VPN tunnel. And yes, one could pipe all their network devices (or just the android box) through VPN.

But then again, the installed app, might also collect data from within the network, etc.

no local media collection.

Yeah… I mean, my stuff doesn’t do anything illegal, at least I hope so.

Ther was some drama indeed, but nothing to worry about, especially if you use a VPN, throw-away emails and bitcoins.

in a nutshell, the French government wasn’t happy about them providing instant links to video files. they then removed a feature from their api, and all seems good again.

But wouldn’t advertising one instance backfire and lead to huge server loads on that instance?

anything that comes in little pieces, like toffeefe or manner.

I’m on a diet but a huge sweettooth. This helps me grab one of them as a dessert after a healthy meal.

probably due to inflation and the price increase 🤷🏻

Microsoft: De nada, amigo! Oh… here’s an ad, btw… and…did you enable Recall already?

yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.

are they even actively developing it? repo seems abandoned

I would suggest not to rely on that. Give the DHCP a range, use manual IPs outside of that range