Kaldo

The worst part about Sekiro is that when you're done with it you feel like you're good at it and you want more but there's nothing else quite like it 😥

Ohh, I had no idea those come with easy installs of the *arr stack. Too bad about jellyfin being locked to higher tiers but manual streaming doesn't seem that complicated either.

I have a vpn through a proton mail plan but it was giving some p2p errors last time I tried it, maybe setting that up properly would be a better first step if it's possible.

Thanks for a detailed answer!

edit: Ahh, proton vpn p2p support is locked behind a higher tier, but at ~$7 per month for a seedbox upgrading the proton package might be a better deal in the end

What are the prices of these nowadays, and how hard to setup? Got a recommendation?

There's no way to transfer accounts afaik, and just hopping instances doesn't solve the web of blocked / blacklisted domains anyway.
As for hosting it yourself, that's apparently really hard and even big communities are struggling with it. Lemmy/kbin also have issues with all the content you interact with being also downloaded to your instance which sounds like a legal and curation nightmare...

How do you democratize something when one person owns and pays for the hardware where your instance is? The moment the vote doesn't suit them they can just overrule it. By being on a fediverse, unless you are hosting your instance yourself, you are literally under complete control of some other individual. Lemmy.world and kbin could tomorrow block each other and there's nothing the two of us can do except either comply or leave.

I am still surprised people didn't anticipate stuff like this in the fediverse to be honest. We all have jokes or actual experiences about power tripping mods or admins on reddit, discord, twitch, forums, or any other similar situation when a petty person gets a minuscule amount of power and immediately wants to exercise it as much as possible.

Now imagine a person like that owning the hardware on which your social platform is hosted, having access to all the data on it, and in no small way determining how the software will be developed (or at the very least, configured) for their instance. And this is without even getting into the nightmare of what happens once money is involved.

As long as the fediverse depends on these few people maintaining it, it will always have problems like these - you're just replacing the corporate overlords with petty nerds (and I use nerds here lovingly since I am one of those) and honestly, I'm not sure which one is worse. Fediverse should have from the start focused on individual responsibility and curation, making it extremely easy for people to host their own small instances that are efficient and safe, instead of everyone just moving to the biggest ones and using them like any other social media (but with less oversight). It's a recipe for disaster. I dunno if that is even possible, but the current approach is kinda doomed to fail too.

edit: FWIW I think Mastodon does it much better, many tech-savy people host their own accounts and are still part of the larger community. However the discoverability is shit so unless you're already famous, you depend on local feeds to find new stuff (or them to find you). If we can expand on it, make it easier to transfer your account and reuse it everywhere, make it cheap and easier to host and secure your own instances (even for casual users!), it'd be a better way to move forward IMO.

I kinda get how it happened with all the reboots and delays but still, that's one banger of a title lol

If there's one lesson we should have all learned by now, it's that it really sucks to depend on the whims of some corporation for software you use often. They all go bad inevitably.

I also switched from obsidian to logseq and I really like it so far, I just wish it had a better smarter search. People recommend queries but they are annoying and clunky to use when you just want to quickly look something up.

Hope you have more luck, Viber is extremely annoying with their notifications and ads and almost everyone here still uses it. Can't get away from it but at least it's not whatsapp I guess...