Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my library because I saw this video by Jared Henderson warning of the change and downloaded all
  • OmnipitaphEnglish
    16•2 days ago

    This guy didn’t want to do the leg work of emailing his photos to his friends, and declares self-hosting isn’t the solution to a social net? I totally see the point in community hosting, in fact I’m all for that.

    But really? You don’t have to make your servers public facing, you just white-list the people you want to see your stuff and make sure to organize your drives with public and private pages.

    He went through all that and didn’t take it far enough.

    • @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      emailing his photos to his friends

      that’s sometimes difficult, e.g. when you have thousands of photos, and emails have a size limit of 20 MB per email. using matrix chat or sth is also not ideal since the other side will have to download images one-by-one. sending a zip file might work, but the matrix protocol might have a size limit for attachments.

      an FTP server might work. also consider that you want to store the images somewhere, not just send them once. how do you do that with messaging services?

      • OmnipitaphEnglish
        3•23 hours ago

        I feel like I covered my bases with the rest of my comment there. If you have thousands of photos that you want to share, host them on your server and whitelist the people you want to see them :/

        IRL I’ve never sent nor received more than a handful of pics at a time, and always through email. It would have never occurred to me that people are out there sending the whole family collection to each other digitally. Grandma hordes those pics for a reason; as leverage for people to visit her!

      • Spice HoarderEnglish
        3•2 days ago

        Synology shared folder, separate user accounts, accessible through tailscale is how I share media with my friends and family outside my network.