melroy @ melroy @kbin.melroy.org

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ActivityWatch tracks time under Linux across all your applications and windows. So you know where you spent your most time on. It can categorize them as well for you. And there are plugin for eg. for Firefox to also track time on sites, etc. So you get a much better understanding about how you spent your time (maybe too much youtube? Or are you too much recompiling the kernel all day?).

Also it's NOT an Electron app haha.

This app is written in Rust and freetube is written in JS. But what is wrong with alternatives? https://rustytube.rs/

Try ActivityWatch! Releases page here. There is even an AppImage.

Then also install: aw-watcher-web to track duration on sites (eg. firefox).

Hi again. Great idea indeed! Just use pi-hole and block all NSFW content, sites and ads.

What you all mention here are valid issues and concerts. The point is that everything you mentioned is related on how the ActivityPub protocol works, which inherently create this situation of semi-decentralizing in form of instances and federation. If we want to get rid of that, we need a fully different protocol that resolves all your issues in a decentralized way, which isn't always scaling, or leaking the technical advances to do so. Or you could even argue that ActivityPub is currently de facto standard (which also includes Mastodon, etc).

The only way to solve all the issues mentioned is to fully replace ActvityPub by another protocol. Which doesn't relay on instances, and no DNS, and no global identity.. Which are technically very challenging subjects on its own. Fediverse is well.. federated, but not decentralized.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Mbin project. And previous contributor of kbin.

If we can trust history books, that happened. And will happen over and over again. Until humans are only pure energy or something haha.

impression the devs and admins were really interested in a poor man's Reddit

No, not at all. It's just that sh*t things happens and instances goes down. Remember that kbin (and now Mbin) is development by software engineers doing their job in the free time. And instance owners also. Most don't get paid for all this work, and if they do.. we are talking about 5 dollar per month.

At the same time devs also have families, full time job and other things. While I heard from the Lemmy dev is able to full time work on Lemmy now.

there is.. Mainly my implementing options for users to export their data (eg. their followers). But also other features like the ActivityPub Move activity for migration.

Ow interesting.. SimpleX is also using Double Ratchet.. https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat?tab=readme-ov-file#privacy-and-security-technical-details-and-limitations

Found a nice comparison table on the SimpleX site. As you can see Signal is centralized.

Here.. SimpleX comparison table.. Signal is also centralized.

Which is not a good thing.. Even if you don't agree with some of the current demonstrations.. The moment you are in situation you also need to demonstrate against the state, you won't be able to.. By then, we are all doomed.

No!! I don't go for signal. That is a centralized alternative. And I'm indeed trying to avoid to migrate again!

Maybe Matrix.. Or maybe Simplex sounds better..

Instead of blocking bots on user agent.. I'm blocking full IP ranges: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/619

Also you don't want to block legit search engines that are not scraping your data for AI.

Ventilation hole in the roof.

ow interesting. TIL.... Olm Protocol is a clone of Signal’s Double Ratchet.

Olm is now deprecated and all development is now focused into Vodozemac: https://github.com/matrix-org/vodozemac. That being said, is there no proven Olm Protocol alternative implementation for e2e encryption (proven technology) instead of reinventing the wheel.

Personally I really hope that Dendrite will release a version somewhat close to v1: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

The main downside of Matrix is the Synapse Python server (blurp). But Dendrite is still far for complete even years later now.