If you’ve been using Linux for 20 years that makes sense, as I have a lot of applications I used on windows that are not available on linux and have no alternative in any repo or flatpak, only as weird little projects on github (that don’t work half the time). So I’ve spent a lot of time trying to replicate a resemblance of my work flow and QoL luxuries. Your work flow has been refined over that 20 years with little windows influence.

Correct! It’s where web searches bring me so it’s what I use until I git gud enough to learn how to find things better.

I do in my server! But I didn’t even consider it in terms of a workstation.

Oh cool, I’ll have to check it out! Thanks!

Close, but not quite!

Yes the world of github and linux is vast and I am like a newborn baby. I hope to visit your bubble one day my friend.

No script lets you individually allow js on certain sites, even specific sources. Block all by default, allow safe sites or temporarily allow other sites based on need. I started doing that this year and it hasn’t been nearly as much trouble as I thought it would be.

Exactly, so use Proton :P

Yeah. The small egotistical nerd in me wants it, bring the old internet back! But the overwhelming majority of my better sense is quite aware of how shitty banning a medium is, and how slippery of a slope it creates.

I prefer having no algorithm. I find what and who I want, and I organize it myself. It feels like the old internet.

Same thing the nerds collectively used before your average schmoe started using the internet. That internet never went mainstream, and a model similar to it never will. Just how I like it.

I haven’t noticed since I started exclusively using plex for all of my media except YouTube. Highly recommend.

UnionBuster

I run a large community, it’s not just a matter of asking people to contact me elsewhere. You can’t uproot a community and bring it somewhere else, and I wouldn’t be able to at all because of matrix’s and revolt’s lack of permissions systems, bots, and other things that are unique to discord. I would welcome a viable alternative. I’ve spent many hours trying to make matrix work with the functionality I need, and it’s simply not possible.

As far as the link goes, I’m not sure if those rules mean the links themselves must not contain tracking, or that the website on the other end must not contain tracking. You can have youtube links that themselves have no tracking information in it. You can’t just ban links to any site with tracking, you’d just have nothing you can link to.

Edit: the rule also says “isn’t great”. That’s not the same as “isn’t allowed”. Forcing someone onto a frontend that either doesn’t work for them or is annoying to use I think is worse than letting users redirect themselves using a “tracking filled website” link.

I tried revolt and… It sucks. None of my friends are on revolt. None of my bots work on revolt. Same with matrix. Matrix is horrible for large communities where discord offers inheritable permissions, forum channels, channels that only some users can see, its just not the same use case at all.

Also please link the original YouTube link. I don’t like invidious, I have my own preferred frontend. Don’t force people to use the frontend that you like. I use freetube, which is just as private and better for my needs. But I can’t automatically open freetube if you don’t link the original YouTube link. Same with people who use literally any other frontend than invidious.