Still sound like a really bad idea for that list to exist at all.
We’ve had more than enough persecuting the bath tub users
we must stop this vicious anti-privacy movement

I’m a visionary director, I have visions like all of the time !

Obviously intelligence agencies are going to be all up in VPN’s juicy businesses. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were all actually run by them and below cost so that nobody who would do it for real and not sell them access could actually be profitable.

Imagine if didn’t make things that sucked.
Where I live we had little cheapass gas station cake company called Vachon
Say what you will, they were a staple and “our beloved trash cakes”
Some company came in, bought it, and made them suck hard.
Replaced animal fat and sugar with seed oil and HFCS.
Nearly all the better cakes are getting cancelled and the company is probably on the verge of bankruptcy.
I haven’t bought those shitty cakes in years.

Imagine if we had a trend of doing not-that.

It should display what is inside the fridge, without the energy loss of a window.
It should have a bar code scanner and a complete food inventory system.
It should be the “kitchen’s tablet” able to show recipes, watch cooking instruction videos, have a high quality curated knowledge compedium in a convenient and easy to access way.
It should be able to stream outside cameras and answer door bells.
It should be able to take video calls from Mom on XMPP.
It should have high precision control and diagnostic systems.
It should run ENTIRELY on open source software, not damn blob drivers, the display panel should connect internally with an HDMI cable.
Run Proxmox and all my menagerie of LXC containers, don’t cheap out LG!! I want 64 GB RAM and 2tb ssd and a slot to add an HDD.
It should auto-doomscroll for me while I peel potatoes.
It should be able to run a smart voice assistance running Mistral 8x70B medium, locally and OFFLINE but networked and answer my agentic commands with a posh british accent.

ok, good enough, send it

OBLIGATORY !! Hey TOASTER ! “I’ll PUT YOU ON ICE” OUFFFFF

kWh/kg female dogs !

The jank oh my god the jank

Abandonware must be open sourced, publishing a new version doesn’t count as a exception.

Thanks ! In that case I think I will make a self-hosted server and client instances of all 3 plus photon and then decide which one I like !

One thing I don’t understand, the clients (and servers) have different features ? So how are they compatible with each other ? I understand the activitypub allows interoperatibility, but if piefed for crosspost agglomeration but lemmy doesn’t, how is that mismatch handled ?

Are they extensions that are just not supported like on XMPP ?

I think I’d want to run each of the 3 webui locally, to figure out which I actually like, but does that mean I should runt he 3 backends as well so that all the features work ?

Is there one backend that basically does it all and I should only run that one ? I do have plenty over ram with many HP G8 DL380 and 256gb ram each so … it’s mostly a matter of “crossing the desert” and configuring each one, which I suspect will be pretty similar but each with their own little gotcha (speaking as a self-hosting veteran, there’s always something)

There’s a difference between “AI is a bubble” and “The AI bubble will pop 2025-10-20 05h34:14.115” and “I can stay solvent longer than the market can stay irrationnal” etc… etc…

We can clearly see, the most stupidest people on the planet (gamblers) throwing money at things they don’t understand because of hype, FOMO and herd mentality, this happens REALLY often in history and even if I didn’t know way too much about how AI works, I could still point at this and say, wow, 90% of AI startup are going to crash and burn totally trying to blitzscale their impossible idea.

They’re all trying to use the crack uber business model with dotcom exhuberrance, there is no ending that doesn’t end in tears for MOST of us, even the innocent and uninvolved, they will take us all over the cliff with them and I hope we crucify the winners (thieves) before they disappear in their bunkers.

Until then we will also have to suffer incessant “OMG AI bubble gonna pop articles” EVERY WEEK until it does pop.

Is there a piefed/mbin backend server or is it just an alternative webui client ?

I’m thinking of switching to a self-hosted single user lemmy instance and run all 3 self-hosted clients to my self-hosted server, is that practical ?

Because I’m not some money parasite who bets on other people failing ?
I think the stock market is an abomination and all those who participate are deeply immoral persons.
This includes me, as my pension fund is buying and encouraging this wretched, humanity churning planet destroying garbage.

Now /u/spez will have all the power

Yes, but they are also doing this to deleverage their mods and consolidate censorship power with corporate

Is it like, a whole other network with different people or is it like a different front-end to the lemmyverse ? This is kind of confusing ? And what about that “kbin” I keep hearing about, is that the same deal ?

Look, without agglomeration there is already a strong bias for any topic to have just “one big community” on “one big server” like lemmy.ml. Because why would anyone post anywhere else than the one community with the most users.

That’s the same reason everyone is on facebook and reddit. This is a fatal flaw of Lemmy. Just because there are many servers that doesn’t resolve the problem of centralization if everyone posts in the same community of the same big server.

And no one will manually subscribe to 1500 “books” communities with 5 user each, even if they existed. The solution is a single view that sees all “books” community by default.

The public were just nice to them while they were being evaluated for termination…
What is wrong with the populace of ipswitch ? Are they all cattle already ?

You have come to the wrong neighbourhood