FreshRSS has been amazing, as you said, other readers have other goals in mind and seems RSS is just an add-on.

On Android’s also there are no good clients, I’ve been using the PWA which is good enough.
There are several extensions for mobile menu improvements, I have Smart Mobile Menu, Mobile Scroll Menu and Touch Control (it works great on Firefox, but not on brave, it’s too sensitive there, so YMMV).

There’s also ReadingTime, but there are feeds which don’t send the whole body of the post, so you might only see a 1minute read because of that.

The extension AutoTTL processes the feeds and makes them update only when it’s more likely for them to get new items instead of every X minutes configured by FreshRSS.
Still there’s a problem when the MaxTTL happens, all feeds are allowed to be updated and you might hit some rate limits, so I developed a rate limiter. Still there’s a problem with AutoTTL because how extensions are loaded and with the http code reported by FreshRSS.

I found this project which receive the emails of newsletters and turns them into a RSS feed, I’ve only used it for one feed and I’ve only received one entry, not sure if the newsletter is that bad or if the site struggles to receive/show them. Haven’t tried something it.
https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

There’s also this repo linking a lot of sites with feeds, and some sites which don’t offer feeds directly are provided via feedburner (which seems it’s a Google service and wikipedia says "primarily for monetizing RSS feeds, primarily by inserting targeted advertisements into them", so use those at your own discretion) https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

Just for privacy reasons?
I can decouple the traffic fingerprinting of some sites, like amazon, youtube, reddit, etc.
And because I have a squid proxy router through the vpn set up via a couple of docker containers, I have a firefox container to always send the traffic over the proxy which allows me to easily search for stuff outside and inside the vpn.

Aside from that I also use the proxy to send requests in scripts over the vpn so my real IP doesn’t get rate limited.
And what VPNs are actually for: looking for geo-blocked content.

I’ve always used them as a bookmark, specially now they have lists.
There are projects with tens of thousands of stars but with commits from 2-3 years ago, with only dependabot commits, or with 0 issues but every last closed one is from stalebot because the owner doesn’t care to maintain the repo.

Stars are not a way to know if a repo is good.

I’d say it’s one thing and better to be tracked only at account level than to be tracked at traffic level.

So you know only your history in the site can be used as opposed to any other form of fingerprinting the sites might use at browser, cookies, or ip level.

Ohhh! Now I understand!

Yeah, then that’s an issue on mastodon.
I mentioned some time ago, the fact that mastodon and Lemmy use the same protocol is annoying, because the experiences are different, so it causes a lot of issues :/

Unless lemmy devs have changed something since last year, this shouldn’t be the case, there’s a bug in there.

All interactions are recived by the instance hosting the community, and that instance is responsible for broadcasting that interaction to each instance where a user subscribed to it is hosted.
So, mastodon is only responsible for sending the upvote to feddit.dk and then feddit.dk to all other instances.

I use https://lemmyverse.net/
You can search for all communities of all instances, or click in a specific instance.

https://lemmyverse.net/instance/programming.dev/communities

Well, that’s what has always been mentioned, defederated from them, AFAIK there’s no way of blocking it completely from the fediverse, so if your instance’s admin wants they can decide to not block them and you can interact with meta.

If your instance defederates and you want to still see their activity then you can choose an instance which is still federated with them.

You can host your own instance to share your opinions.
Still don’t expect other instances for allowing content they don’t want to be federated with, so you might have where to say something but it might not reach everyone.

Windows: you’re going to use wsl, right?

The last time I checked postgres gets big becouse of a log activity table used for deduplication, it stores the data of 6 months. The devs mentioned you could be deleting it up to some point (IIRC they said 3 months, but confirm first).

As for pictrs, lemmy caches a lot of stuff, so it copies a lot of data from other instances even when it’s advertised only media from your instance is stored in your server.
My solution was to disable pictrs since I don’t upload media.
Other solutions I’ve heard about are to ask users of your instance to upload media to any other media hosting service, the images uploaded to lemmy are just seen as urls, so it wouldn’t be any different.

It’s been great and not that expensive using a VPS.
$6 for the vps and $1 for 40GB HDD.
Although the HDD probably is making my instance slow, to improve it it’d be $4 for 40GB of SSD, but since the instance is only for me I don’t have any issue in waiting a few minutes.

I’m using PiHole with my tailscale to use their MagicDNS.
This shares the PiHole among all the devices connected to the tailnet, and in the PiHole you can configure your local DNS to point your domains to your tailIP.
My setup has several services in a single machine, so there’s also the issue of ports, for that I use caddy as a reverse proxy, which also allows me to have HTTPS only configuring the key to my registrar for the DNS challenge

there’s also Aegis and 2FAS, but I have no idea about WebDAV servers and also don’t want to rely on Google Drive for backup, also because I’m moving away from Google services.

If your only issue are the backups, then you can still use aegis with automatic encrypted backup to a folder in your device and then use syncthing to automatically send it to your machine. From there use any other backup solution like duplicati or restic.
(Remember that syncthing is not a backup solution, it should only be used as a way to automatically sync files between devices) (People have had many issues with duplicate, but I’ve only seen posts about huge amounts of data, for something like aegis backups has been working fine for me)

I’d also recommend you asking in !selfhosted@lemmy.world

The only issue I’ve had is with games from kakao, they crash after a few minutes of starting. I think the last time I tried it said something abiut modification to the OS. But that’s the only developer I’ve had problems with, the rest of the games I have play without issue.

Also the only downside I see is the tap to pay not working at all, but that’s not graphenOS’ problem, google won’t certificate them.

I’ve been using traccar. It’s more like a service for fleet management, but as a selfhosted alternative is as best as I was able to find.

Kind of, but just because I deployed it xP

Syncthing is so great, I don’t have to deal with things like a FTP server, sending files to a cloud drive, connecting via USB, or similar. I just point syncthing to the folder I want to replicate and my PC has it immediately and receives new files as soon as I connect to a WiFi (because of my configuration), and then at the PC I can easily backup the files.

I remember there was an update to the [redacted]'s one to avoid spam, I don’t know how it worked but it was in the lines of after some “here’s your reminder” comments it stopped itslef from commenting and only sent PMs to the people commenting.
Just mentioning it in case it’s also a desired improvement for this one.

The thing the others mentioned plus maybe it’s easier to hide imperfections in the raw chicken once cooked?