Wikipedia itself is doing fine but they have a bunch of super interesting side projects that they don’t advertise much, and aren’t doing as well. Wikinews, their news site is shutting down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2026-03-31#News_and_notes (this is really close to april fools hopefully I didn’t eat the onion. Or hopefully I did?).

My favorite is wikibooks: http://wikibooks.org/ , which are open source texbooks that can be edited wikipedia style. Their programming one’s are really high quality. The idea behind those is that you can export a known good frozen version of them, as a texbook for a class. Related is also wikiversity, which is course curriculum. It’s similar, but different.

But they also have a travel voyage, wikivoyage, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects

Companies at onferences give 4/8gb out sometimes. They buy branded ones in bulk.

Database performance on btrfs is miserable compared to zfs, whereas bcachefs was doing much better.

I say was because… see the other comment in the thread. :/

Surely everyone not using cloud hosting sticks some sort of router/firewall at the edge and runs the VPS inside with port forwarding?

I would really like to see a setup guide for this. Because if you are throwing a VPS up, they usually just give you a public ip address. I don’t really know how you would put a router/firewall in front.

This requires manually enabling every additional provider.

No, it doesn’t. The docs are confusing on this, but forgejo has two methods to enable oauth/oidc. One is to manually enable them, but there is a second, where people bring their own openid link.

The docs contain 3 things related to oauth:

• Oauth provider forgejo acts as oauth for someone else
• Ouath client — This is the one where you manually enable providers
• But then there is a third config. Openid. This one lets users bring their own openid/oauth link and sign in with that. No manual configuration required on the side of the forgejo server per oauth provider being used.

Forgejo has a feature (that people usually disable) where you can bring your own openid connect url and use it to auth. So if I have my own OIDC provider I am self hosting, I can just use that to log in.

Most people only use OIDC for google and microsoft and whatnot but it’s very possible. I don’t realkly see what FedCM offers that OIDC doesn’t or can’t, or why we shouldn’t be adding features to the existing and popular OIDC instead.

This reminds me of the way that forgejo lets you feed it an arbitrary openid url, so you can log in with any service you want, including your own server.

Also, is this compatible with lemmy? The last time I tried fediverse (mastodon) login, it was with owncast, but it didn’t work with lemmy.

Unfortunately deleted means deleted. Data gone.

My recommendation is to use it as a reverse proxy to expose services but ultimately host from another device.

It’s 1 gb of ram anyway (the free 24 gb of ram arm vps’ are scarce and hard to get).

Another tip is that they monitor cpu and ram and are more likely to delete it if is idling. There exist programs on github that do nothing but waste cpu in order to try to keep the oracle vps up.

They like to randomly delete them. It happened to me and a friend.

Honestly, the best solution to 1 may be to simply deploy mumble in addition to matrix (or other chat apps).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality

As far as I know, there is no programmatic way to destroy an existing pizza. terraform destroy is implemented on the client side, by consuming the pizza.

I have a sticker of the nix one on a laptop.

have you looked at solutions which emulate github actions locally?

https://github.com/nektos/act this is one of them but I think I’ve seen one more.

Github actions also has self hosted runners: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hosted-runners

What would you use if you had a choice?

design around ease of self-hosting. A non technical user must be able to self host easily and at a very low cost.

This may be a controversial opinion, but I actually like the way that hosting a lemmy instance is somewhat difficult to spin up. I like the way that it is requires a time investment and spammers can’t simply spin up across different domain names. I like the way that problematic instances get defederated and spammers or other problematic individuals can’t simply move domain names due to the way activitypub is tied to those.

In theory, you could set up something like digitalocean’s droplets, where a user does one click to deploy an app like nextcloud or whatever. But I’m not really eager to see something like that.

Transferable user identity (between instances)

I dislike this for a similar reason, tbh. If someone gets banned, they should have to start over. Not get to instantly recreate and refederate all their content from a different instance.

Of course, ban evasion is always a thing. But what I like is that spammers or problematic individuals who had their content nuked are forced to start from scratch and spend time recreating it before they get banned again.

As for what I would really like to see, I would really love features that make lemmy work as a more powerful help forum. Like, on discourse if you make a post, it automatically searches for similar posts and shows them to you in order to avoid duplicate posts. Lemmy does something similar, but it appears to only be the title. It would also be cool to automatically show relevant wiki pages, or FAQ content, since one of the problems on reddit was that people wouldn’t read the wiki or FAQ of help forums.

I would also like the ability to mark a comment on a post as an “answer”, or something similar. I think stackoverflows model definitely had lots of issues with mods incorrectly marking things as duplicate, but I think it was a noble goal to try to ensure that questions were only asked once, and for them to accumulate into a repository of knowledge. For the all the complaints about it, stackoverflow is undeniably the one of the biggest and most useful repositories of knowledge.

It is foss though?

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

What about the f droid version?

Gnome used to much worse when it comes to ram usage, so the inertia of those sentiments still carry.

Kde used to be much worse, using what gnome uses now, but now kde has similar ram usage to xfce last time I tested. CPU wise it’s still much worse though.

99.9999% of freecell games are winnable. Very nice, and one of the reasons I preferred freecell.