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I’m on board with this. It sucks and it makes things a lot easier to be able to have SSO.

But I’m also peeved the SSO tax is nearly always in the enterprise tier and never in the first paying tier. Even if you’d want to pay for it, the enterprise cost is usually a multitude in price with features you likely don’t need.

They just know companies have policies that enforce SSO for compliancy reasons and are forced to pay.

But as a self hoster the enterprise tier is even more disgustingly expensive.

But the open source projects we use and love also deserve contributions ( financially ). But as a self hosted there’s also a financial incentive to self host and not take everything as a SaaS ( besides the obvious take control of your data ).

Edit: I mean I agree with the selfh.st statement and yours ( for clarity)

The best is pretty subjective and partially relies on what you need.

Keycloak is one of the most feature complete ones I think.

I’ve used authelia before and liked it, but it had a very bare UI and everything was done through config files which forced redeploys on changes. It wasn’t ideal for me.

I’m currently trying out voidauth. It’s got some more Ui features compared to authelia and can apparently also simulate some Active Directory queries to forward your users to third party tools for provisioning ( unless I saw that wrong, I haven’t tested any yet ).

Authentik looked nice, but I haven’t gotten around to checking that one out yet.

You get SMACKED or SLAMMED in newspaper articles. The damage to your ego is enough punishment really. Much worse than any fine or jail time.

Billionaires have it rough.

/s

Signal used to do text messaging as well but they removed the feature. As they felt it was unclear when a message was fully encrypted ( signal message ) and when it wasnt ( text /RCS message ).

I don’t think there’s a privacy friendly chat app that also does RCS.

How do you mean merge?

It’s basically another messenger.

Signal is a great app to replace your messenger with. Keep in mind that it doesn’t save whatever media you post there in your gallery.

Matrix is another solution, but you’d have to self host that. I have no experience with it.

Threema is a swiss app which I think was pretty privacy respecting as well? It doesn’t use phone numbers either IIRC.

And you can watch it when your internet is down.

There is also this: https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy

I think your immich gallery can even be private ( though the public proxy would need to be able access it ).

I have no experience with it though.

How do you enforce consistent backups of the database? Do you dump the data periodically? Copying the data on the docker volume won’t give you consistent ( and possibly corrupted ) backups IIRC if the database itself isn’t stopped.

Email notification and the like usually don’t work out of the box and require SMTP configuration. This is usually available in the app admin consoles or configurable through Environment variables in the console.

I’m not running it ( and I haven’t checked it for Monica HQ ), but those would be the first things I’d look for.

The .env.example file shows SMTP settings. The example file notifies to a logfile rather than an email.

https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/.env.example

# Mailing
# Set the MAIL_MAILER to 'smtp' if you want to send emails.
MAIL_MAILER=log
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=hello@example.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
MAIL_REPLY_TO_ADDRESS=hello@example.com
MAIL_REPLY_TO_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

I mean Microsoft should be paying people to use it because it’s so god-damned awful.

I mean Microsoft should pay users to use it. Because it’s so god-damned aweful

Microsoft teams users should get paid to use it*

I have no clue as I’ve not set this up myself unfortunately. :(

There are also certain Linux distros have SElinux enabled ( like red hat or fedora ). This could also block docker from accessing the file if it is enabled.

You’d have to search online how to set a policy in selinux to allow it.

SElinux does not appear in Ubuntu/Debian based distros.

Easiest check would be to run getenforce. If it works and it returns 1 it’s enabled and possibly the culprit. You can try running your docker after running setenforce 0. This will temporarily disable it until a restart IIRC. You can enable it again by setting it to 1.

I wouldn’t recommend disablint it permanently

I think if the source path doesn’t exist, docker will mount a directory ( IIRC, but not 100% sure ).

Can you triple check if the path to your wg0.conf file on your host actually exists and that the path is definitely correct?

stat /home/docker/test/Wireguard/wg0.conf

Hodgepodge.

AI will vibecode that into production in a week. And to make it all easier…it’ll have merged your account with 10 competitors too so you know what they’re working on!

That’s cool. I’ll look into that

Oh I fully agree. This wasn’t to say we don’t need a federated solution. It’s simply that i did not find any FOSS solution which was readily available.

I tried revolt in the past, but post rebrand their website doesn’t even mention voice anymore. It might be there? The article somewhat confirms part of what I said ( not really many FOSS alternatives which are mature/fill the use-case, let alone distributed ).

Matrix is mature enough but I’ve heard getting voice to work is not that straightforward. It’s also not as simple as registering and building your space. You can self host it, but then you’re responsible for hosting/security/patching/upgrades/… . Which is outside of a large audience their circle of interest. You could rent a matrix server, but that a quick search gives me servers around 50€/month. That is a pretty steep price just for some voice chat with friends. If there’s a proprietary free version people will always just do that. The only ones who don’t are people who do it out of principle.

People will take the path of least resistance, and as it stands I feel proprietary software currently is ahead ( simplicity, features, maturity, … ). The downsides obviously being the fact your data is being sold off. I’d not now then when they’ve reached critical mass and the VC are looking to squeeze to get their investment back with extras.

I mentioned big tech, but I should have said proprietary as it’s not necessarily a big tech alternative.

But yes, I would love to have a distributed FOSS discord-like software I can use with my friends.

But as it stands I can’t even get people to move away from WhatsApp for signal despite the nightmare that is meta. Let alone convincing people to move to something less polished when their friends are using <other tool that is polished, but proprietary>.

Let us hope comes up while there is still momentum.

I guess the main points are voice chat channels, community building, bots, free, chat capability as well.

It was pretty attractive for gamers. Especially in the MMO section where you needed to get 20+ people in. Compared to in-game voice it was private as well, so you weren’t talking for your entire lobby.

It’s not just a text chat app/IRC replacement. There’s no calling, just voice channels. Hop in the voice channel to join if you want to play/talk. It was good.

Looking at alternatives I still feel there’s not a lot of competition for discord.

Sure there’s matrix, but from what I gather online it’s not the easiest to set up ( at least the voice ), most people aren’t interested in self hosting this stuff or paying for it. There’s IRC, but that doesn’t have voice chat. Slack/mattermost has voice, but you need to start a call and it doesn’t support 30 people.

Guilded.gg seemed to be a good competitor ( no experience ) but that has been discontinued. Now there’s gamevox.com and rootapp.com that seem to be fighting for that market share.

Moving from one big corp to another though… I’ve looked into self hosting a teamspeak6 server on my vps for friends. Max 32 people. And I’m losing resources on my vps for it.

Discord was going to shite, but they’re speeding up now.

Oh wow. Base offering even has a 128gb disk.

I did :( I’m very happy with it too.