I’ve been running NixOS on my gen11 for a few years. The battery life isn’t great, but otherwise I really enjoy it as a laptop. I enjoy the chassis and the screen. I’ve got a replacement set of AMD internals on order along with a case for my old motherboard to use as a tiny server.

I use gitea

But how is that a different problem than mastodon or Lemmy or friendica face? What makes TikTok different?

I mean network effects are real. You always have a hard time moving users over to a new network platform. Are you saying that anyone using TikTok right now arguable does not care about privacy at all so would be unlikely to see the value of federated decentralized apps?

But what all is needed for tracking? AI-based metadata extraction from the video and metrics of how long the user watched the video before swiping or rewinding or stuff? That can all be done at the instance level. I’d imagine the bigger issues is the engineering involved in the app content creation tools, and the costs of data storage for all of those videos and bandwidth for distributing them, something TikTok currently just foots the bills for. Arguably an open source equivalent wouldn’t have the privacy stigma around it, right?

Delete the login and re enter it. That worked for me

Well you don’t have to subscribe if you don’t like it

I will reply to this post. It’s the only way to fix things

Yes. This is my new Reddit replacement

Actually, a scriptable filter (JavaScript? Lua?) for individuals might be nice in a client app or web app

I for one would love bridges to those as well as other sites like hacker news and lobst.rs or just pump rss feeds into an instance. This is common practice in the matrix community - why not here?

I’m already considering self hosting my own instance, so I’m probably not your target demographic, but I would leave pretty quickly from an advertising instance. If an instance wanted alternative funding they could offer plans with value add of some other type if they wanted to subsidize server costs