Thanks for the links. I already use them, but it never occured to me to look for an alternative to my Premiere Pro from the seven seas :)

I’ve never heard of Kdenlive before. Looks pretty impressive. I’ll try it for sure!

Just use Smarttube

Fair point, stability and long term maintenance absolutely matter.

I was mainly highlighting performance because that is often the main friction people, including me, report with Nextcloud for simple setups.

OpenCloud is not a random new project either, it comes out of the ownCloud ecosystem, so there is some history and structure behind it.

If you have specific alternatives you consider stronger in terms of governance or long term stability, I would be interested to hear them. It would help broaden the list of solid open source alternatives.

Obviously, everyone will recommend Nextcloud. And yes, it works. But it is heavy and can feel slow.

I then moved to OwnCloud, the original project behind Nextcloud, which I found significantly faster. After that, I switched to OpenCloud, which is closely related to OwnCloud. It is less intuitive to set up, but it is extremely lightweight and very fast. That is the one I recommend.

Depending on your use case, there are plenty of other options as well, such as Seafile, Filerun, Filestash, Copyparty, and others.

That’s fair, you’re absolutely right. I probably like it enough that I never had the courage to go through all 2,453 pages of the XDA thread :) Running it through Exodus showed a clean result, so I likely trusted it a bit too quickly. It still feels miles better to me than most proprietary apps on the Play Store, but clearly less easy to trust than the open source apps mentioned above.

Wait. Nobody mentioned the extraordinary MiXplorer ?!?!

I don’t know why it is not more popular, it just does EVERYTHING.

Don’t forget to donate to the dev if you use and like it :)

Short answer: it depends on what you write, where you are, and who hosts it. High-level discussion is usually legal. Step-by-step guidance or facilitation of piracy can trigger liability regardless of disclaimers or missing links.

I totally agree. Criticism should lift people up, just like the way it’s delivered. But meeting rudeness with more rudeness just doesn’t strike me as productive. No matter how unfair the original jab was.

It’s a shame to dismiss the mastery of language as mere pedantry, when in fact it’s a tool for precision and respect for those who read us. In an age when automatic correctors make writing accessible to everyone (including those with challenges like severe dysorthographia) deliberately choosing approximation is to miss an opportunity: the chance to rise above, to communicate without ambiguity, and to show that we value our audience.

Language is not a cage. It’s a bridge. Why settle for the easy path when, with a little care, we can open doors?

If you feel like selfhosting, OmniPoly is a great option.

Key Features:

• Translation: Text translation across multiple languages (see: libretranslate).

• Grammar Checking: Ensures your text is not only translated but also reads well with proper grammar and style (see: languagetool).

• AI-Powered Insights: Utilizes Large Language Models to analyze sentiments and extract interesting sentences, adding depth to your translations (see: ollama).

I consider myself an artist. I work with sound and image. AI productions are beautiful and good because they are based on the work of artists who create beauty and goodness. The day AI finishes killing the artists it draws inspiration from, and has no one’s work left to feed its algorithms, art will be dead. This is what those who promote AI as it is today are fostering. This is just my opinion and reflects only my views.

Thank you. I’ll have a look

This is great.

Does anyone know something similar but this time for my navidrome online music ?

I wish I could start learning how to code. But I’m already stretched too thin on too many fronts :(

You don’t even know the business I’m running and who my target audience is :D If I can touch more people with the mentality to use fediverse, then, good for me ;)

As a small business owner that has to turn into a content creator 🤢, I need this.

I hate that proprietary software has credentials for all my social media.

It just lacks twitter.

And I don’t know why this kind of software never offered posting to pixelfed, Lemmy or mastodon…

I’ll have to have a look into this, it looks promising :)

Oh damn, that’s sad.

Thanks for the link

That’s great reading something else than “use a work computer”.

Actually, this is the root of my problem, I don’t really seek clients that are people using tiktok. My target customer doesn’t use any of this crap, but before I can count on word of mouth, I need to eat, and I’ll make some profit when I’ve finally met my target customers.

In the meantime, it’s thin line to walk on.

Thanks for your input.

I’m using Insular atm, which I like.

I was curious so I installed Shelter, but I can’t find how to setup a VPN for the work profile as you mentioned.