Maybe you can be the one to build it!

My guess is that nothing yet exists because A) the official app is generally pretty good and B) Bluesky is pretty newly popular so the demand wasn’t there yet

Sort of. There isn’t another platform to migrate to at the moment. But this link explains how to self-host your data (PDS) https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

And in general, because of the way the protocol works, you could easily build a new app and just use the data that Bluesky wrote. So another platform wouldn’t even need users to “migrate”, since it’s “being your own data”

Just because BlueSky isn’t federated doesn’t mean it’s (totally) centralized. It uses the AT protocol which means user data lives in a separate place than the app itself. While the BlueSky app is centralized all the user data (your posts, likes, etc) live in a separate place and can be self-hosted. This means that if BlueSky went bust or something, users could easily just move to a new platform that someone would inevitably create and all of their data, likes, follows would all be there.

Miso soup is my go-to breakfast. You can get dashi powder and miso paste, then just heat water in the kettle and combine. I love that it’s warm and flavorful, but actually a pretty light breakfast (which I prefer).

Thanks! Using them alongside torrents seems to be a good idea. Maybe it would improve my ability to find more obscure stuff!

Thanks, yeah the impression I’ve gotten before is that it’s mostly the same. But maybe using it as a backup for my normal torrents could be useful for more niche stuff that I can’t find in private trackers…

Thanks! Working better with the arrs is a sell for sure. I have my setup pretty well tuned for torrents, but still sometimes it can’t find something that meets my filters because it’s not named/categorized correctly.

Haha no worries, still helpful. I edited the title to be a bit more clear about what I’m asking for :)

Awesome, yeah that makes sense. My biggest worry/confusion was about how more niche releases end up on there and so that clears things up. I’ve mostly been happy with what I can find via private trackers, so maybe it makes sense to stick with that.

That would work fine for linux, but the folks who need to upload stuff to me server can’t do that. They’re running Macos which doesn’t really support webdav well (and SMB is a mess too), plus they’re on an external network and I don’t want to have to get them on my VPN

Oh, didn’t know that. Sadly I’m only on Mac & Linux

Yeah, I’m doing a test-run rn with syncthing and finding it pretty slow. Not sure why but it’s downloading files at like 100Kbps even though I know the upload speed of the network is much higher. I don’t have any bandwidth limits setup in syncthing so I don’t think that’s why…

Transfer.sh seems cool enough, but I’d rather avoid having to coach non-technical folks on how to use the command line

I love rsync, and also have been using croc a lot recently for similar stuff. It’s not really feasible for non-technical users who don’t even want to think about using a terminal though.

It’s not really the workflow I was imagining for this, but it might actually not be a bad idea. It might be a bit weird to use, but if I setup a “drop folder” on his machine that he could plop folders/files into then maybe it could work. Thanks!

Huh yeah that’s not a bad idea. I actually sort of dislike the nextcloud client normally (as I’d prefer it to not actually download the remote files, but act like a virtual filesystem). But in this case, it might actually work…

Thanks! I already use NextCloud and quite like it! Hover, I find their file upload feature to be lacking for this use-case. Sadly, it crashes/freezes the browser when I try to upload a folder with a lot of files (which is the main thing I’ll need to do with this)

Yeah, I had plex forever and I spend way more time on the phone with people trying to explain how to use it’s god-awful UI than I ever did on regular tech-suport. Plus it made me cringe every time I had to use it. One day I tried Jellyfin and instantly knew I could never go back.

I’ll admit, though, that Plex has better support for more platforms which is super nice.

I use cloudflare’s firewall for some security rules, one of which was to block “known bots/scrapers”. This was blocking Google from accessing/scraping my site, and my theory is that they flagged it just because of that. I’ve turned it off for know, so we’ll see.

I use Authentik for SSO, and I think it has some reverse-proxy features built into it. This would be a really interesting idea, I’ll look into it. Thanks!