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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

On one hand, I can name sites that, in 2023, either screwed over their user base, or just went under.

Teknik (obscure file host/git repo host)
Enjin (forum host for clans/everyone and their dogs' minecraft servers, rebranded to peddle NFTs)
Imgur (currently scrubbing their servers of anonymous uploads/nsfw content)
Discord (changing their username system to a bad one)
Reddit (charging exorbitant prices for their api; $20m per year for Apollo's developer)

I have been considering a domain name to access hypothetical home servers as of late, just so I don't have to worry about shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zippyshare went under too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:O how?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's services were dropped a couple of weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're interested, I wrote about some of the things I moved to self-host on my blog; https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2022/11/20/the-rise-of-the-indie-web.html

I recommend checking out https://indieweb.org/ as well!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@aaronbieber @Face I self-host a streaming platform of sorts, via #PLEX as well. Maybe not #FOSS, #Jellyfin would be the #FOSS alternative, but still quite nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I also use Plex! I didn't mention it for the same reason (it's commercial), but it works great!

[–] sanpedropeddler 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have also tried hosting a subsonic server but I ended up returning to Spotify because I didn't see much benefit to it at the time. Hopefully using navidrome this time will fix some of the issues I had with it. Have you tried any desktop clients for it, or do you just use a browser? I didn't like the web version of subsonic but I know you mentioned that its cleaner with navidrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have been using one called Sonixd, which is a dead project. The author decided to rewrite it and rename it to Feishin and the rewrite is much worse, but Sonixd does the trick. You can use any Subsonic compatible client and there are others out there.

The Navidrome website is really not bad. It's much cleaner than Subsonic itself, and if your browser supports global media keys (Firefox does), you can still control playback from your keyboard (or macro pad or whatever).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I didnt even realize Enjin went down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Enjin has completely shut down.