Zulip is a wonderful blend of the good old forums' ability to keep information accessible, and Discord's fast-paced formula; the way it's organised and displayed to the user is fairly unique and slightly alien, but it presents an amazing opportunity to sort and organise the discussions in your community space.

You know how the Discord threads are kind of useless?

Zulip puts threads, or "topics", front and centre - when you click on a channel, you end up browsing the most recently active topic, and see a list of other available topics. You can start and archive topics as you see fit. Archived and resolved topics are out of the way, but still accessible rather than getting lost under piles of fresh messages.

#fossalternative #selfhosted #selfhosting #takebacktheweb #takebackcontrol #zulip

looking for a #foss program that allows me to draw in a pdf without annoying "splitting it into pages -> exporting it as an image -> doing the drawing -> converting back to pdf -> unite all the page-pdfs" workflow.

I just want to use my drawing tablet to fill in some forms that were made for printing the pages.

any recommendations?

EDIT: xournalpp works for me!

#fossalternative #softwarerecommendation

hmm I wonder if there is a good Android app that just turns wifi on on my phone whenever gps senses me to be vaguely at home/work/othrr preset places

#android #fdroid #apprecommendation #androidapp #fossandroid #fossalternative

What would be a good FOSS self-hostable for a buy nothing group? Apparently Facebook is deleting them, and I wanna convince the ppl on a different corporate software to have our next backup be on a website controlled by the admins of the group (in some way, whether technical or telling a host/sysadmin what to do)
But what sort of software should I suggest? Or what existing websites/apps could be used that seem to be pro-labor/anti-censor?

#askFedi #foss #fossAlternative #fuckZuck #fuckBigTech

Replaced Feedly with #Miniflux for news aggregation.

One more awful thing off the list.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #fossalternative

http://zipline.diced.sh is so much better for file sharing than Nextcloud it's not even funny.

https://zip.cafecreature.com/hellofedi.py

#selfhosting #selfhosted #filesharing #fossalternative

Picked up https://www.usememos.com/ as a replacement for Google Keep and iCloud Notes. It's super simple to set up with Docker, has a web app, supports tags, markdown, checklists, attachments, and editing, and resembles the Google Keep from some years back.
The way it's set up, I wouldn't expose it to the internet - doesn't look like security has been considered at all.
I'm just using Tailscale for access.
It's neat and I like it.

Also planning to ditch Nextcloud for public file link sharing and move to Zipline instead later today.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #fossalternative #tailscale

Hey fedi,
I look for a self hosted music streaming server

• allowing downloads
• allowing uploads by users
• shared playlists and private playlists
• usable when offline

#selfhosted #music #playlists #foss #fossalternative