i kinda want to upload all my shitposts gallery on PeerTube but i can’t even find a single instance that is open for registration lol

Let me give you my opinion, specifically as a React developer, if you don’t mind.

And let’s be clear: I intend this to be a constructive criticism. I hope you understand and don’t take it the wrong way.

To be honest, I don’t know how good or bad federating one-way is. This is more of a “people” problem rather than a technical problem.

But, to be honest, what I am bothered by, is the fact that the website doesn’t give an attribution in the UI about which instance certain users are from and which instance certain certain community are from.

Take a look at this post: https://clubsall.com/posts/theyre-trying-to-charge-luigi-with-terrorism-imagine-that-qfF82

The UI says that the post was posted by u[slash]BytesOnBikes. If I didn’t know better, I’d have assumed this was from a user from clubsall. But if you click the username, you realize that the link says u[slash]BytesOnBikes[at]slrpnk.net. I think this would be confusing as a user. What if there is the same user under the username BytesOnBikes from clubsall? At least if you include the instance name, user would know right away that both users are different. But if you didn’t include the instance name, I feel like this can be abused to impersonate user. This is a bad thing to happen to your website, don’t you agree?

Now that we both understand that lack of attribution is a bad thing to clubsall… What’s stopping you from adding an instance name to the username? I’m sure the app has a way to know which instance certain users are from. From what I gather, I feel like this is as easy as appending a string in the code.

I haven’t even talked about the community name on the UI. Or the ethicality of misleading attribution.

The things redditors mentioned are very good already. Primarily screenshots. Please, please always add screenshots to let me have a general idea of the UI.

I’ve read this mentioned many times. Is it really that bad XD

Syncthing is one of the best software I used. I use it to sync my notes.

separate the data-directory from the appdata-directory

Would you mind explaining more about this?

To me, good documentation is the number one thing that makes a selfhostable application good.

I agree. If you don’t mind: what are your qualifications for good documentation? Do you have some good examples of good docs?

A lot of stuff tend to end up trying to be too easy and you can’t scale up, or stuff so unbelievably complicated you can’t scale it down.

I see, it’s probably good to have some balance between those. Noted

No, I don’t want a second container for a database.

Unless you’re talking about using SQLite:

Isn’t the point of Docker container is to only have one software/process running? I’m sure you can use something like s6 or other lightweight supervisor, but I feel like that’s seems counterintuitive?

Reminds me of this: https://kevquirk.com/blog/linux-elitism-again

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra

Ahh found one. Interesting name

What is Mitra?

Wikipedia is an internet gem

(already had a feeling that someone will say this)

I won’t delete my posts/comments because I want to be helpful, that’s it.

But if I prefer deleting my posts/comments, I will archive it instead.

I respect what r/ArtFundamentals did, and it should be an example: After reddit’s APIpocalypse, they don’t support reddit and decided to close the subreddit. But the advices from the subreddit wasn’t gone–in fact they actually archive it in their own website:

https://drawabox.com/r/artfundamentals/

That’s why when I left reddit I don’t delete my posts (even if those posts suck)

Bonus:

As a software engineer…

Don’t just say “just Google it”. Guide them to the documentation. Ask them about the detail of the question. If it’s an bug, try asking them if they can reproduce the bug.

This reminded me of the time I’m looking for how to do certain things in a software. I found a reddit post asking about the same issue and this is the reply OP got:

Here is the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/mupjsf/how_to_showhide_i3status_bar_taskbar/

Imagine. You search the issue you have. Found the ONLY reddit thread that talks about this, and the ONLY thread that talks about the issue have NO USEFUL ANSWER and, worse, the only reply is TELLING YOU TO SEARCH IT YOURSELF. This got upvoted too 😭😭😭.

Luckily, I found the solution (tbh the solution was there in the docs, but the wording wasn’t clear and it makes it hard to search) and I end up replying the OP the actual answer.

So, this is a PSA for the fediverse: be nice. It’s free.

While we’re still young, we have a chance to become a better forum.

Also possibly an unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t downvote a question, even if it was asked multiple times. Guide them to the answer instead

https://web.archive.org/web/20241112044540/https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

Rest in peace. He was 26.

You keep dismissing said person as a troll, yet I feel like they have a point

I know you’re not the same moderator they were talking about, but I just want to make you aware of this: https://ponder.cat/comment/1193264

This moderator behavior here is exactly what you’d see on reddit lol