There’s a Files desktop app, which will sync photo folders as regular folders.

I guess we have different definitions of cross-platform but I think it’s unfair to leave Nextcloud out of the diagram when it has a memories app as well as one for facial recognition. it meets all criteria except an iOS app.

Probably Steam Deck users with that handheld device in one hand and their handheld device in the other.

No drawback if you have the hardware and know how to do it, but those are major obstacles for the vast majority of people who use Google Drive. Signing up for a hosted instance is much easier (and not even more expensive)

Nextcloud is already on the list but I just wanted to mention that self-hosting isn’t the only way to use it. Frankly for the price of a hosted solution it isn’t worth it unless you already have a server for other things.

I’d add hosted Nextcloud too. Hetzner for example have 1TB for less than 5 EUR/mo and it works great on Linux.

Linux has always had a strong showing over there. If I had the misfortune of living there I’d certainly want all the privacy and autonomy I could get…

Yes, it would be some tacticool edgelord callsign like “Viper” or “Terminator”.

The kernel recently surpassed 40 million lines of code, so there’s lots of room to add more fucks and shits.

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You really like metaphors.

Depending on the use case you might want to narrow this down by how many are compatible with your needs. Stripe’s API for example is extremely versatile.

Sounds pretty rapey to me.

What’s the difference between this and missiles?

If they do achieve decentralization in the future I’ll gladly call it decentralized, but “tangible plans” don’t warrant use of a descriptor like that. If someone is training in the hope of making their country’s Olympics team they don’t get to call themselves an Olympian. You have to have gone to the Olympics to justify that title. Working towards decentralization is the same thing. You don’t get to call yourself decentralized just because you wrote it down as a goal on your roadmap.

I don’t think that it’s accurate to say that bluesky is “completely” centralized (it is less centralized than most social media) as much as it’s de-facto centralized.

That’s like me calling myself a millionaire because I could theoretically be one at some point in the future. I am de facto not a millionaire, but I also have more than zero dollars. so I’m not completely a non-millionaire.

Also theres already another instance and relays running on a raspberry pi.

Oh yeah? I can join that second server right now and communicate with folks on the main server?

I stopped reading when the “journalist” asked this question:

How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform?

How little research must one do to credulously repeat that PR talking point for a platform that is in fact completely centralized?

Distrobox and Flatpak are more than enough at this stage for most programs

Maybe for you, but personally I could never get by with only that. I have zero interest in atomic distros. To me they look like an inferior version of NixOS, which I have yet to fully wrap my head around. Until then I’ll stick to Arch (BTW)

Thanks for this, I’m a longtime user of OO and had no idea. LibreOffice just doesn’t do it for me. Going to try Freeoffice…