ktemkin, (edited )
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okay, here's an interesting wide-open one: what services [in general, no restrictions] do people like/recommend?

e.g we use:

  • Mattermost (self-hosted work chat)
  • FastMail (work & personal e-mail, work calendar, work storage)
  • Xero (work accounting software)
  • Simplifi (personal accounting)
  • NextCloud (self-hosted personal storage, calendar)
  • SearXNG (self-hosted [meta] search engine)
  • Forgejo (work git; gitea but federated)
  • BookStack (work wiki)

what do y'all use/recommend?

dwardoric,
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@ktemkin I'd add:

Baikal (CalDAV and CardDAV)
Big Blue Button (meetings)
ejabberd (chat, xmpp)
XWiki (docs, notes, processes)

pty,
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@ktemkin

  • powerdns
  • postfix+dovecot+rspamd
  • matrix-synapse
  • cryptpad
bronsen,
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@ktemkin I like reader and use their hosted plan https://miniflux.app/hosting.html (very cheap; absolutely zero issues in several years, so cannot say anything about their customer support).

I also use, but do not like, youtube premium: fewer ads but still lousy UX.

Wanted to pay for but then their CEO (I think) doubled down on some shitty remarks.

allpurposemat,
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@ktemkin is really solid (paired with a Bitwarden client). The android app is a bit rough but it should be better on newer phones.

flameeyes,
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@ktemkin @wallabag to replace Pocket when they dropped a very important feature for me (volume button navigation.)

n3wjack,
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@ktemkin nextcloud for storage, WordPress for blogging.
Nextcloud extensions are great too. I'm thinking of starting to use more of them in the future.

emily,
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@ktemkin my two are rsync.net and purelymail, they are "you want X. You know what X is. We sell X. That is all." for backup storage and email respectively. <3 companies that do one thing well and get out of the way, on the assumption that you know what you want better than they do.

Also shoutout to radicale (self-hosted caldav/carddav), for being that one thing I regularly outright forget I use for months at a time, because it just sits on a server quietly doing its thing with no maintenance.

allpurposemat,
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@emily @ktemkin I use , can very much recommend! It works super well and their support solved any questions I had impressively fast.

promovicz,
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@ktemkin

  • Jitsi (simple conferencing)
  • Gitea (low-effort code hosting)
  • Jupyter (code collaboration)
ktemkin,
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@promovicz worth mentioning Forgejo as a fork of Gitea that's working on adding host federation, so you don't have to have an account on all the various project-specific git instances to e.g. issue PRs or write issues

preya,
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@ktemkin @promovicz It's not there yet. Calling it "gitea but federated" is a little premature imo.

ktemkin,
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@promovicz @preya hence the “working on”

preya,
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@ktemkin @promovicz I was refering to your initial post, where it says Forgejo (work git; gitea but federated)

ktemkin,
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@preya @promovicz ah, you jumped into a different reply section, so context was lost

“gitea but federated” is a short parenthetical, which naturally lacks nuance. What’s your concern — are you e.g. worried the parenthetical is misleading?

mwfc,
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@promovicz
Overleaf (working latex environment)
Archive.ph (paywall circumvention)
Crypt pad (modern encrypted pads in various forms, collaboration)
Migadu (email hosting)
Uberspace.de (webhosting done by nerds close to chaos)

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