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I think the dev gave up on this when they learned about Nostr. I was really interested in Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) for a while, but it's been a while since I looked around, so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt, I may be iffy on the details.

SSB was a really cool idea, and I loved the idea of a gossip protocol. The implementation had its drawbacks, though. For example, users had a cryptographically signed and linked feed that helped ensure complete propagation of a user's unedited content, but it couldn't handle the consequences of a feed forking, which made multiple devices for one user on an offline-first protocol very difficult to work with because you couldn't really guarantee that two or more clients for one feed were properly synced.

So there was an attempt to develop an SSB v2 of sorts to address some of these shortcomings. I believe the author of Manyverse was one of the people working on that. The project was never formally named to my knowledge, but you can probably still find vestiges of it on github, particularly under the Manyverse author's profile, for something with a name like PPPPP. At some point, though, it was discovered that another protocol had been inspired by SSB and had solved a lot of the problems they wanted to address in SSB. I'm pretty sure that protocol was Nostr. Last I knew, once that had been discovered, interest in developing PPPPP and maintaining SSB clients dropped off significantly. A bit of a shame as the SSB community was VERY different from the Nostr one. Probably still some of them left using it, but I don't see it growing the way I wanted it to at this point.

Every vote is a push in one direction or the other in the US. You can vote to push right, you can vote to push left, or you can avoid voting and let the rest of us decide for you. But the last time a bunch of leftists weren't thrilled with the options, the electorate voted to push right. From your valid gripes against Newsom, I'm gonna guess that was not what you wanted.

Come election day, one of the two candidates is guaranteed to become president. You cannot stop that. I won't try to say Newsom is ideal or even a good candidate. I'd love to see someone else run instead. But if you want an even more leftist candidate next time, the country has to show they'll tolerate movement in that direction, and that means not electing another fucking Republican.

Nah, that's too obvious, could have just been a coincidence. This, though...

True, but your body will not enjoy water that's very alkaline, so there's a chance it's sufficient since lemon is pretty acidic.

Plus, if the whole point of it is to be alkaline, why directly counter that with what you add?

I never really used Spotify, so I can't make any direct comparisons, but one thing I can say is that Lidarr and Jellyfin will not help with exploring new music. They're things you host yourself, so they can only interact with your own collection.

Lidarr manages a music collection and works primarily through a web page. I've only personally used it on desktop, so I can't vouch for the mobile UI. Desktop UI seems good enough, no real complaints. You can use it to do things like index your collection, show what you may be missing, standardize folder structure, file names, and metadata tags, and automate downloads of missing content or upgrades for low quality content through bittorrent or Usenet. There might be third party apps to use it if you prefer, but I'm not aware of any since I never felt the need to look.

Jellyfin streams audio, video, and I think ebooks. It has a web client, too, but it also has official client apps for desktop and mobile. The UI is decent, pretty intuitive, no real complaints, but I feel like it could be improved somehow. Still, it works well, and it doesn't cause problems. However, Jellyfin has had some security vulnerabilities in the past, so I think it's recommended you not directly expose it to the internet. So instead of setting up port forwarding on your router, you'd want to use something like a VPN or maybe an SSH tunnel to get into the house from outside. That makes it a bit more technical to set up since you need that extra service to access it safely, but that's only necessary if you want access from outside the house.

Jellyfin and Lidarr is a potent combo for managing and streaming a collection.

One dude brought his son, and I don't think the son was super enthusiastic, so not quite

So it sounds like they can't really enforce the fine, but they can restrict me from the region for noncompliance. Blocking me seems well within their rights, I suppose. This whole hypothetical was based on the idea I don't depend on their market at all, so it's not like it'd harm me.

But does it really constitute doing business in that country when you do everything your home country? Your servers, your workers, your ISP, your bank accounts, your currency coming in and out of those accounts, the companies buying your ad space, all completely out of their jurisdiction, but since someone within that jurisdiction reached out and made requests to my web server, I'm obligated to abide by their laws? It doesn't seem tenable. It effectively means that any commercial website must comply with all laws anywhere in the world or geoblock outside their intended range.

Does Imgur even have infrastructure in the UK? How could they even levy a fine? If I'm running a business in the US or Canada or EU and the UK tries to tell me to to pay a fine, how can that possibly be enforced? I'm running a service entirely outside their jurisdiction. It's not my responsibility to enforce the laws of foreign nations.

Don't worry, Trump will just roll over and let it happen.

I think a lot of economies are entangled in the modern day, so it's not so easy to do without punishing your own citizens.

Of course, when Trump levies huge tariffs that make it too expensive to be so entangled, that helps encourage decoupling.