I’m dealing with this with my 10 year old daughter, all her friends have social media, Facebook Messenger etc.

I found delta chat, which uses IMAP email, but presents it in a chat format, she just needed her friends email accounts, easy. And it killed the desire for messenger.

We also recently setup her own website with a forum, so she and her friends can write stories, share images etc. We haven’t got to her actually building her own homepage yet, but it’s coming.

She hasn’t experienced mass social media yet, so having her own (sub)domain with a forum, her email@domain, etc is exciting for her and is letting her express herself on a platform that me and her can both fully control.

My father routinely referred to any bread with grains or seeds in it as bird or squirrel bread.

To this day, I agree. Give me my white Texas toast and don’t put any seeds or nonsense in my bread.

I think this could be a good idea. As Lemmy gains traction it will get more expensive to maintain an instance, grossly so for the “main” instances. People can donate directly, but a reward system could help improve donations.

My main machine is running Linux Mint on a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb ram, 80TB of raw storage and a vega 64 GPU.

Running:

• Home Assistant
• Emby Server
• Photoprism
• Piwigo
• The usual NZB suite
• FTP Server for uploading cellphone pictures automatically at night time