mccJust basically gonna have to assume for the rest of our lives that any cloud/content hosting service offered for free is at best temporary and at worst some kind of trap
(Screenshot source is an email I received this morning.)
I think the one free service I trust not to someday fuck up on me is Neocities, and that only because it appears to be run by ideologues (the fact it is run with an explicit anti-growth policy, and that the service it offers is intentionally so limited, also helps)
PS check out my web sight on neocities!! https://mcc.neocities.org/
I hate that, in the "AI" era, this argument actually makes a lot of sense https://toot.cat/@jamey/112671927674516582
Jamey Sharp (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Given that they've been holding onto the full history but only letting you see the most recent messages for years, I actually think it's an improvement if they start deleting posts that they won't show you anyway. Doesn't make it any less of a trap, of course
I *also* hate how much sense this makes. https://feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses/01J158M7XFJ3ETD5GGXDV8BHXC
(Normally at this point I'd go down a rabbit hole of scrutinizing Slack's TOS/privacy policy with a magnifying glass trying to figure out whether anything legally binds Slack to Actually Delete everything that gets deleted from the service, but that is probably not the best possible use of my morning.)
Post by bob, @[email protected]
@[email protected] what makes you think "delete" means actually delete and not update posts set deleted=true
FoolishOwl@mcc I was in a group that ran up against usage limits on Slack and migrated to self-hosted Mattermost. Everyone hated it because it wasn't *exactly* the same as Slack.
Light Owl ☸️@foolishowl @mcc I too gave Mattermost Team server (the non-Enterprise, free and Open Source version) a try for a couple of years. I had about 140 casual, light users, total.
Should anyone else like to test Mattermost Team server out, I wrote an installation guide (slightly dated, but effectively should still work) for installing it on a Raspberry Pi:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=131&t=269505&p=1635472#p1635472
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