Only thing not really mentioned in the other comments are Pixelfed and PeerTube. Again you gotta make genuine stuff not ads but if you put at least some effort in the videos and post semi regularly (and ideally use your own instance) you’ll be top in whatever niche you choose to highlight your business with. I can’t say the garden tending would make great business sense (it won’t bring you many new customers) but if the work you do is your passion, its another outlet to share it. Its also not bad to have your own (labeled) ad channel (on your instance), archives can bring nostalgia / meme material, but local only, and don’t boost them.

I don’t think it’d be bad to have your own threadiverse and microblogging platform instances for support and slice of life type stories, but that’s for interacting with existing customers and fans, not for gaining new ones. I’d caution interacting outside of your instance in that space unless pinged / mentioned directly, even more carefully than you would in other socials.

You all exit your editor? How you do the rest of your computing?

/s with ♡ from an Emacs fan.

Yeah I’m probably in the same boat, got love being an old.

You can always just subscribe to your favorite creators via RSS instead of relying on their subscription tools. It does kill some discovery potential but its not like you still don’t get recommendations when going to the video.

Almost all alternatives will be based on Open Street Map (OSM), and your mileage will very on the amount of detail from your local contributors. The two I primarily use are:

CoMaps (community fork of Organic Maps) has a clean intuitive interface and a decent router algorithm. Lots of developer energy and good community governance. Offline first, allows some OSM editing, quick to load and routing. Downsides are its limited feature set and configuration.

OsmAnd is a bit older but includes more routing options, near full OSM point of interests (POIs, locations like stores, buildings, etc) editing options, shows more POI types (configurable but can get noisy), has optional Mapillary (community Streetview style project unfortunately ran by Meta) integration, optional weather data, over and under layers from other sources, and optionally incorporates Wikipedia and Wikivoyage data filling in some gaps. Its interface is a bit more clunky, and somewhat slower, but it does a lot. Get the OSMAnd~ version from Fdroid, which has most of the “pro” (paid) version but without Google services. The actual paid version does have Google reviews and more POI search engine, but you’re using Google again.

Both are offline first but also both suffer from no review system integrations or traffic integrations (no Waze/GMaps reporting of slow downs or speed traps).

https://marginalia-search.com/ is pretty great for a different approach to search. While not exactly what you were asking for since its free, you can definitely pay via donations if you find it valuable.

Would Panoramax be your preference? It seems like it just needs some more global instances? Federation with AP using https://github.com/swicg/geosocial would be really neat for these types of projects too.

While decentralized is great, I wish Wikimedia would start something similar, maybe with the data still hosted in WikiCommons?

And if you don’t want Signal because its “too centralized” for whatever reason, there’s DeltaChat, SimpleX, and good ol’ XMPP.

My next post after this one was https://lemmy.world/post/34898968 (a story about a Baidu taxi driving into a construction pit) in my home feed.

Hopefully the EU itself can provide its own competitor in this space and that the EU actually enforces its own privacy and safety laws against this behemoth.

You have to remember that YouTube has 20 years of content and is ran by an advertising agency that also specializes in search algorithms, and they make money by having ads watched along videos that retain attention enough to motivate people to watch another one (usually meaning quality videos, though algo slop is also a consequence). PeerTube is a little over 6 years old, is almost entirely operated by volunteers and donations, and the whole fedi, including PeerTube, is only near .0001% of youtube’s user base. While the community is improving at a rapid rate, near every topic outside of the fediverse itself simply is by YouTube standards still niche, especially if you only watch in English.

Searching curated instances like https://fedi.video/ is probably the best we have right now if you don’t want to sift for gold yourself, outside of requesting more creators (preferably those you’re patreoning) to join or at least allow reposting.

Crazy how well *nix did back in '05, now that there are so many quality of life improvements, the near takeover of the web platform for most apps, M365 existing, Wine compatibility improvements, and the ease of management for virtuals & rdp/vnc when something must be on Windows, most of their concerns have hopefully been eliminated.

It’d be interesting to see if there have been recent followups.

Mobile non-Android Linux on more than developer devices and 5 year old tech would be the largest impact, especially if you could pull off half of what the Liberux Nexx was promising. An all in one convergent pro-privacy device with flagship hardware would be a game changer. Possibly more urgent now that Google is pushing Android to be more locked down.

Desktops are primarily used by hobbyists (mostly gaming), creators, and businesses. To get Linux more there you need OEM installs and more driver support, Adobe and other big holdouts finally porting their stuff, and alternatives to AD respectively.

Yes, but there are some Excel formulas that LibreOffice can’t do and while there is now some VBA compatibility its not 100%

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office#Desktop_Spreadsheet_applications:_LibreOffice_Calc_vs._Microsoft_Excel

Lazy question as I haven’t followed the DSA closely and Wikipedia seems very surface level - does it do stupid privacy invasive crap and forget small sites exist like the UK’s Online Safety Act?

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive might be enough for your OneDrive needs, so you can get by only booting your VM when you truly need Desktop Excel.

Love this game, but beware its just as addictive as other Civ Games.

“Just one more turn” is a real phenomenon.

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/github_to_codeberg has some instructions on how to do a bulk migration using LionyxML’s script. https://codeberg.org/LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg

The underlying software forge Codeberg uses, Forgejo, is self-hostable. I’m sure some web hosting business will get around to providing a managed hosting offering eventually.

Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren’t “great” for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn’t be tied to your speech or content you view.

IANAL but many localities have provisions that guests become defacto tenants after certain timeframes. This CO lawyer’s blog I found searching for your state’s tenancy laws might be a good read. https://www.colorado-violent-assault-crimes-criminal-lawyer.com/colorado-criminal-law-rights-of-a-house-guest-vs-colorado-trespass-laws