Lemmy is still in active development and there are some missing features, but it is very usable. Your friends’ complaints, some are a bit exaggerated and some are really not that big of issues that will get resolved eventually.
There were a bunch of other comments on this post, then they suddenly disappeared? What happened? 😳
I think immich and photoPrism are the best options at the moment
This blackout has been very disruptive. Most users, participating or not, were impacted, and became aware of what’s happening.
The only issue I see is that many users might think we’re throwing a pointless fit and don’t understand the value of third party apps and the APIs.
Hopefully people don’t get bored and the momentum doesn’t die
Time to shame the new admin for crossing the picket line. Disgusting behavior.
I use rsync, and for android I use rsync via Termux and cron.
This method gives me a ton of customization and control so I really enjoy it :)
This wouldn’t work for iPhone though :(
Gitea
Backups via rsync
Jellyfin
Piped for YouTube
Using gentoo Linux with raspberry pi 4B
What about for services that is made public for anyone to use? VPN would not make sense here