Just try it out. I make no guarantees for odd setups like that though. :-)

Use ntfy.sh. It’s open source and has a free server.

Disclaimer: I made it ;-)

Thank you for contributing to the magic of the old school internet.

My question: How does one get to write an RFC? Do you have to become part of a certain group, or just be known in certain circles, or do you just start writing and then submit it somewhere? If I had a great idea that I think should become an RFC, what is the process to make this a reality?

It’s already integrated into a bunch of things, especially the *arrs, but if you have suggestions, please let me or the maintainers of the other software know.

Here’s a list: https://docs.ntfy.sh/integrations/

I just read this article and what Meta is doing then triggered all the alarm bells!

This tactic even has a Wikipedia page: Embrace, extend, and extinguish

From the Wiki (quite enlightening):

The strategy’s three phases are:

• Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
• Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the “simple” standard.
• Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

You got a lot of heat in this discussion, but let me be one of the few to applaud you for actually making a proposal. Saying No is easy, but suggesting something and writing it down and putting it out there is hard.

I am a Principal Engineer by trade, and i do what you did here all the time. I put out suggestions to my team and let them absolutely wreck it. This is how you advance and enhance your idea. Listen and learn from the feedback and suggest another thing based on what you have learned. Rinse and repeat.

That’s how you get to a great proposal. Keep at it. Well done.

Hey 👋 I know you. Hehe.

And yes, it should not be hidden. It is very much unexpected, because Reddit doesn’t do it, and it’s not visible to normal users.

Das ist nicht ganz korrekt. Communities die noch von niemandem auf dieser Instanz abonniert sind müssen erst hinzugefügt werden.

Ich betreibe eine Instanz nur für mich alleine, und jedes Mal wenn ich eine neue Community hinzufügen möchte muss ich sie erst in der Suche über die URL suchen. Dann taucht sie in der Liste der Communities auf und kann abonniert werden.

Ist ziemlich nervig, sollte aber auf großen Instanzen nicht häufig vorkommen.

The privacy stinks you say? Did you know that Likes and Dislikes are public too? That was the most shocking to me. Because it is very much not like Reddit or others.

It’s still a fantastic piece of software, with all its flaws, though.

Ich verwende die PWA hauptsächlich deshalb, weil Jerboa mich nicht mehr posten lässt. Die App sagt einfach immer “language_not_allowed” und löscht meinen Kommentar. Ich hab schon gegooglet, aber es nicht lösen können.

Aber mir gefällt die PWA jetzt eigentlich besser.

Progressive Web App – In Chrome (oder Firefox Mobile) kannst du Lemmy als “App” installieren in dem du in der Adresszeile auf das “Install app” Symbol drückst. In Firefox Mobile ist es im Burger-Menü unter “Install”.

Ist quasi die Webseite mit eigenem Launcher auf deinem Home Screen.

Ich finde die PWA eigentlich besser als Jerboa. Nicht so buggy

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

I thought the post was timely since the alert triggered today. The ntfy server was DDoS’d today and I got alerted pretty much instantly. It was quite nice.

Except that you can selfhost both healthchecks.io and ntfy.sh; and you can’t selfhost reddit or any of the services they advertise, haha

I would love that too, but for that Lemmy would have to be more stable too. It’s such a disaster right now 😭