TBH it has not really been an issue for me. My biggest real beef is just that I prefer just having regular text files in /var/log instead of using journalctl. And I feel like it’s a Microsoft-style monolith that flies in the face of the Unix philosophy that I honor and revere.

Use any distro you like! Just make sure it is without systemd

As an American, I look forward to when Americans fire Mr Trump after publication of supportive “shared secrets” to Jeffrey Epstein and illegal placement of Ghislane Maxwell into a country club prison

It’s mindblowing how early in the game Windows became enshittified

“OMG you got a new CPU and harddrive, maybe this is a pirated copy…”

And props to the dedicated folks still running Invidious instances like https://yewtu.be/

TBH I chose Funkwhale for my solution because it looked easy and out of the box, I just add a single Docker and subdomain to my existing site.

It wound up being more or less what you describe.

I may well follow OP’s guide and nuke my Funkwhale despite the work I put into it and the fact that it does basically work for its intended purpose

Question: did you consider Funkwhale , and if so why did you choose this other stack instead?

EDIT: fix link sry

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I don’t think that necessarily follows.

Have you heard of self-hosted Patreon-similar Ghost ?

Fuck GOOG for normalizing surveillance capitalism
Fuck YouTube in particular for making it basically impossible to usefully host an Invidious proxy any more and for their algorithmic manipulation

PeerTube is the Way

Whatever it is, it’s probably in the Epstein papers

No contest, no where to run