That’s the “Local link” I included in the post body.

Voltámos à vida, melhor que nunca! :D
Tenho muita expectativa para o futuro relativamente próximo.

É pena a coisa ter morrido um bocado, em parte por falta de dinamismo meu e em grande parte pelos diversos problemas de desempenho que a instância enfrentou durante meses, mas agora que as coisas estão muito melhores (e muito dificilmente voltarão ao que estavam), tb eu espero poder reviver o estaminé e criar uma comunidade agradável :)

Provavelmente já não acompanhas o Lemmy, depois do período difícil por que passámos, mas gostava de saber que solução de interesse público estavas a desenvolver, e como é que correu/tem corrido :D

Certo, mas eu aqui usei “dia D” para me referir ao 25 de abril, não ao desembarque na Normandia mesmo :)

I understand.
You could look into getting a domain either way, it really is pretty simple — you go to a registrar website (I like porkbun.com), choose your domain name and purchase it. To get the email stuff going, it’s just a bit of copy pasting between their guide and the domain’s control panel.

Like I said, this domain stuff is useful outside of Migadu and similar services, but for a more 0-config option, I think disroot is alright. You also have a mailbox.org and StartMail (from StartPage).

If you have your own domain, I recommend Migadu. They take care of all the boring parts of hosting email, while being cheap and very reliable. All you have to do is[1] follow their guude to setup some DNS records and double check everything is right. After that, you have a working email account with unlimited addresses, inboxes and a bunch more nice features.

[1]: Besides getting a domain name, which you should get anyway, since it gives you more control over your digital identity and makes it much easier to migrate providers in the future.

Last time I tried starship (a few years ago), it was pretty bad, very sloppy performance, not async, at least on fish. I ended up sticking with the simple, yet effective hydro. Maybe I can give starship another try, but honestly don’t know if I even need all those bells and whistles…

It’s not because of features, since fish has tons of stuff as well and is super snappy. Someone pointed out most of those extra features are implemented in zsh itself, rather than in C, like core features.

I just upgraded my Lemmy instance’s hardware and finally got IPv6 support :D

Thanks for the suggestion! However, I’m more than comfortable going with Arch now, something that wasn’t true when I first picked up Manjaro (over 6 years ago).

I’ve settled on Manjaro for this computer, and I’m pretty happy with it (I’ve stooped distro-hopping, I just don’t have the energy, nor the time to entertain that on my only laptop), though I’m considering changing to base Arch for my next one (which I hope is still 3 years or so in the future; this machine is only 4 yro still). Why? Because the version wait on Manjaro seems a bit arbitrary sometimes and that lag often doesn’t play nice with the AUR (which I love). Sometimes I think of switching to more esoteric distros, such as the neat Alpine (which I’ve been using on servers for a while) and reproducible NixOS, but then I question the day to day usability and pain points, which are quite relevant to me atm.

Why do I like Manjaro though? I like the Arch made easier, the mhwd tools, the support forums (which I know people have mixed feelings on, but my experience has been nothing other than very pleasant).

Feel free to discuss my points!

True that 😅
Fado hits hard

Seeing Portugal in second depresses me, but it’s kinda expected :/

Incredible update, well worth the wait!

Congrats to everyone involved :D

Yeah I feel you. It’s often hard to be fully alert of what you’re sharing all the time. I have slip ups but it’s usually fine, I’m only mega careful regarding things that could give away the city/town/village I live in, and where I work. If I ever really want to talk about it, I will use a different (often temporary) alias.

Great comment, cheers!

While this may be a good end goal, these comments are really more harmful than anything else. Removing your dependency on some proprietary service can be very far from trivial, or even doable, there is a wide-range of internal or external factors preventing you from ditching it.
For example, part of my work and a bunch of good online friends of mine use Discord, so I keep it around. If you do any social gaming as well, you’ll also most likely find it hard to ditch the platform, as it’s grown deep roots in the community.

Anyway, it’s better to take small steps in the right direction than trying to make a U-turn and fail miserably.

I see, that’s a good point indeed, it can be a good learning step. From a privacy standpoint, however, it’s not that effective.

That is interesting to hear, why do you think so?