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  • I needed to make a chat server for a bunch of normie extended family members. They need an easy to use mobile chat. Registering on PC complicates things. Then adding the mobile client for authorised encrypted messaging wasn’t really going to be realistic for everyone to do.

    If anyone knows of a chat/voice/video self hosted app thats easy to deploy and use, I would be very interested in any suggested solution. Vocechat was not easy to deploy or get voice chat working…and the app sucks.










  • Well if we’re out sharing unpopular opinions then here are mine:

    1. Add spoiler warnings if you want, but there should be a statute of limitations and every discussion regarding movie and TV can’t consider if everyone present has seen it or if they plan to. Most references are to memes that are so ingrained in culture now anyway. Darth Vader’s “no, I am your father” is hardly a spoiler anymore.

    2. People are over concerned about spoilers generally. The surprise element is a very tiny proportion of the value of the art. You could literally tell me the ending of Se7en or Sixth Sense and I will argue that my enjoyment of good art is not affected at all. Everyone doesn’t need to be as extreme as me, but the over reliance on the surprise element of art is bordering on absurd now. Even saying “there is a twist” is considered a spoiler.

    The Closer Look channel has an excellent video on how spoilers make a movie better (on Nebula currently, will take another week to get onto YouTube)…although he is talking about the intentional use of spoilers by the creator, I think the message carries over to all media.


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    8 days ago

    I’m also interested in this, but with the added requirement of “no politics”. There are meme communities but people are hell bent on posting political absurdities everywhere as if they are flag waving for their team. I just want dumb jokes about dumb shit without hearing propaganda.