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  • canpolat@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPlex for books?
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    5 months ago

    I know you said “self hosted”, but if you are interested in an Android app, Google Play Books does most of what you want, I think. You can upload your books, and read them on any device (with offline capabilities). But this is the Self Hosted community, so I will show myself out.



  • I think single account ActivityPub implementations are addressing a weakness of the Fediverse: one’s identity (handle, username) is tied to an instance they have no control over. If that instance shuts down users lose everything. With a single account instance, you take that control back. And since it doesn’t need to scale the architecture can be much simpler and can be deployed to much cheaper infrastructure.

    The demo was not straightforward, though. And I didn’t quite get how a user can follow Mastodon users, for example.







  • That’s the main reason I don’t use any apps. I don’t think there is a real need to suspect the official UI. If one doesn’t trust the instance admins, then they should rather migrate.

    In case of an application running on a server, there is no reliable way to make sure that the source being shared is the source that is deployed. As I said, I don’t think you have any ulterior motives. I’m only trying to raise awareness around a specific problem with Lemmy. Perhaps I should create a separate post about this in relevant communities, if it hasn’t been done already.


  • I agree that this is a feature Lemmy lacks and would be great to have in the core. And thank you for taking the time to create it. However, asking for username and password is a security problem. I’m not attributing any ill intent to your work, but something like this can very well be used to harvest account credentials. So I would advise people to not use solutions like this.

    Unfortunately Lemmy doesn’t provide a better way to implement this kind of add-ons. Hopefully one day it will have a better Auth system. Until then, I think I will stick to the official UI and hope that this will come to core :)