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Using Ollama, it’s a bit laggy using Termux on a Redmi Note 10 Pro, though the model I picked may not be the best optimized.

Wouldn’t there be standard forums with fediverse integration, like NodeBB?

Linux initially, giving way for me to see that the best alternatives to me are generally the ones I control.

And considering geopolitics, where I can see how dangerous a well-positioned spy/saboteur/paid actor can be, my next self host project is some ActivityPub social media, at least as an one-user instance since I don’t want to act as a company yet, so I have control of where I’m posting from too.

If seen as a solution, it’ll lead to disaster. If seen as a tool, then something good could come. But a tool being a tool, it’s as good as the person using it. And there’s the concern of it causing addiction similar to TikTok to be tackled if it is to be reliable, and not a dependence source.

Dunno your region, but Registro.br’s domains are rather cheap imo. However, I need to check again, but afaik it’s only for people with CPF or CNPJ, the Brazilian equivalents of person and company identification numbers.

Dunno how to train a database model or however it’s called, but using Termux + Ollama + qwen2.5:3b, it helps as much as I’d expect for a (to my knowledge) non commercial tool. Also since you can pull other models/whatever, maybe you can provide your own too.

I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.

Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲

RSS’s a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don’t like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

Thinking here, the site engine I’d pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.

Tangencial comment, but as I’d presume your instance is running on a Linux server (usually sites are), maybe check with ncdu (if available) which folders are the biggest?

Also on the images issue pointed by another user, maybe also see if Lemmy now has a solution for it, or if any of the alternatives do.

Maybe there’s a way to import contents through federation? Just, if both run on the same hardware when doing it (possibly the new instance on a subdomain), both would run way slower.

Directly compatible with Lemmy, there’s Friendica (Facebook-like; also compatible with Twitter-like posts e.g. from Mastodon), Mbin (simplified/cleaner UI; also hybrid like Friendica), and PieFed (apparently more Reddit-like than Lemmy from what I read, in a technical sense).

Dunno which are better/worse to run, but I remember seeing hardware requirements on the docs of each of them.

Also it’s not uncommon to see single user instances from my experience. But if you feel it’s a waste of domain/resources, you could also create some dedicated community or something to give further use for it.

Don’t think there are any for this purpose. But maybe you can wrap something up. For example, if one such service like Strava has RSS, you could set a bot to share. Furthermore, iirc the user can set his Friendica account to make automated posts while still being a personal account.

Also, maybe also look if a tracking service has integration to an ActivityPub-compatible platform, or even to platforms that can be bridged to ActivityPub. For example Wordpress (seem pretty powerful from what I’ve seen) and Bluesky (can be bridged to ActivityPub through Bridgy Fed, Friendica, Wafrn and maybe some other service I’m forgetting).

In this idea of nested bridging and RSS, if a tracking app lets you post to Twitter, you could make an RSS reader bot or a Friendica account to read the feed a Nitter instance would provide for your Twitter account.

And in this idea of nested bridging, alternatively and if all steps are possible, to find an app that lets you share to Facebook or Instagram, then share the post to Threads while it has ActivityPub integration active. Not sure if it’s indeed viable as I don’t use either of the 3.

Also maybe Misskey or PieFed could help? Apparently both have pretty powerful CSS-based user extension capabilities.

And not an immediate solution, but to keep fomenting the idea of having an ActivityPub alternative for that? Or even getting someone to make it, though people don’t usually seem to like to make software for one person if they’re not being paid and they don’t see a bigger advantage to making the software.

Mind sharing a link to the tool? Checked the post on the original url and it doesn’t seem to be there either so guessing it was forgotten.

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For Android, Librera from F-Droid. From the non-Google Play readers, it was the best I found.

For the PS Vita, Noboru. Though laggy (lack of RAM in the Vita at fault) and only supporting image-based ebooks, being able to control ebooks by the physical controllers is fantastic, something I greatly miss in any other readers I remember.

Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don’t care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don’t award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.

FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I’d suggest supporting financially the creators.

Thanks!

Like others said in other responses, Peertube may be a good call. Iirc, there’s also a reels-type of federated platforms akin to TikTok too, but I can’t remember the name.