I use the nextcloud gpodder integration myself with antennapod (phone) + kasts (desktop) and it mostly works well with subscription sync and timestamp sync. It’ll occasionally forget that I’ve listened to an episode on desktop but I guess that’s just growing pains.
I’ve been keeping an eye on podfetch as a potential nextcloud-gpodder replacement but it’s not just there yet for me.
As for finding an alternative to the sync server, my only suggestion is to find a free/paid option at github.com/nextcloud/providers#providers that’ll let you install the gpodder nextcloud app or use the oracle free tier to host something light like podfetch.
I’d also be interested in switching. I even thought about hosting it myself but it’s kind of a lot of work and I shifted to only using AntennaPod on one phone for podcasts so I wouldn’t get much out of it. I still like to have the list of podcasts I subscribe to backed up on gpodder so when I switch phones I don’t need to import/export anything.
@jeena yea, I'm using AntennaPod myself and I used it since the website was still available. I'd like to sync the podcast on desktop as well, but there's nothing I can use to sync it with (okay, there is the option to use Nextcloud, but I have no self-hosted instance)
What do you use on the desktop to listen to podcasts which is compatible with gpodder? My biggest problem is that even if gpodder syncs the list of podcasts I’m subscribed to, it doesn’t sync listened/not listened nor timestamp for listening now or anything like that.
@jeena I used gPodder (Yes, it's an app as well). But I didn't really check the sync capabilities, apart from the played/unplayed episodes and syncing subscriptions. I also tend to listen to each episode from start to end, so syncing timestamps or something wasn't really a priority for me.
The website was also great because you could choose which podcast to sync where.
People, and especially teens, still use Snapchat? That’s surprising. I remember when that was super popular in the late 00s/early 20teens with my friends (I never really used it). I don’t think anyone that I know my age (mid 30s) uses it anymore. Which I suppose makes it “cool” again.
I mean, TikTok is comparable to YouTube Shorts rather than regular YouTube. I think that YouTube is useful, but don’t like TikTok or YouTube Shorts, the model where the service has a recommendation engine and just chooses a collection of short clips of videos to constantly feed you, one after the other. Apparently there are people who do like it, but…
I personally find them both useful. Well, Tiktok specifically not youtube shorts.
My thing with tiktok is that their content recommendation algorithm is best-in-class at knowing what sort of content I want, and it starts edging away from what I want, just marking stuff as “not interested” a few times will bring it back in line. By modulating my behaviours on certain types of content (i.e. making choices over whether to watch or skip, mark as “not interested”, view comments, comment myself), I can customize an algorithmic feed that delivers what I want.
Granted this is quite an amount of work to use a “social media app”, unlike the other platforms, it’s possible and it’s good.
Youtube (long-form) I think is extremely useful when I’m looking for something in-particular, especially if it’s something that doesn’t age very much. Guides and tutorials, let’s plays, retrospectives, etc. They both fit better with the long-form content, and are much easier to find on Youtube than Tiktok.
The content recommendation algorithm of Tiktok is what makes me use it, while the discovery of specific content and access to longer form content is what makes me use Youtube.
I find YouTube unfortunately to be the best at grabbing my attention
They’ve cracked the code with their UX to make it as addictive as humanly possible
Open YouTube to watch a long form video, get shown about 5 shorts per one video and inevitably end up seeing something interesting in a short, then end up scrolling for way too long on your very own skinner box
Yeah, it’s happened to me a couple times and I hate it so much when I finally wrest myself out, on top of the anti-adblock shit, that I’ve basically stopped browsing YT altogether. If I get a link I’ll watch a video but the quality of the experience has dropped so drastically since the early days. I actually lament the fact that because of how the algorithms are tuned, it is impossible to get to the weird part of YouTube organically - You have to already know about the weird shit in order to see it.
Not 100% related, but Chrome is crashing my computer. Started happening like a month ago, I would be dinking around on the net and everything would suddenly become unresponsive, can’t even open task manager, have to power cycle. This would happen anywhere between three days or thirty minutes apart. Nothing shows up in the event viewer before any of the crashes, all the hardware I can test comes back clean. I have a friend who said he was having the same issue, he switched to Firefox, hasn’t had it since. I’ve had a week of uptime now since I did the same. I’m beginning to think Alphabet just makes bad products now.
Snapchat and Instagram are in a traffic jam for third place, with the ephemeral messaging app used by 60% of respondents and opened every day by 58%.
Interesting. When I was in high school 6 years ago everybody had snapchat, and most people had instagram. And I mean everybody. Everybody I knew had me as a friend on snapchat and your clique was whose snapchat group chat you were in.
@bermuda When Snapchat was popular, I had a shitty phone that I could not even upgrade WhatsApp on. This lasted for a few months to a year. Insta was already quite popular beforehand, but since I had no smartphone, I got late to the game. So my account was inactive for quite a bunch of time. Later I got in college and got a Huawei P8 Lite, and I used it for a while, with my friends, but more for the camera effects. We weren't really chatting there. But there were more people posting stories there indeed. Now almost everyone is on Instagram.
To paraphrase Angus Young: "I'm tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that are exactly the same. We've put out 12 albums that are exactly the same."
Although I think that was a while. I think they've released a few more versions of their first album since then.
“We’ve been accused of making the same album over and over 12 times,” guitarist Angus Young once said. “The truth is, we’ve made the same album over and over 15 times.”
I don’t think there’s a factual answer to this question.
My take on it though is why would they delete it? They can make use of it in various ways, and in new ways every once in a while, and it’s not like as if you could prove it in court or even just find out that they didn’t delete your data.
@ReversalHatchery I was thinking about that. I previously worked for a company that did the exact same thing, if I recall correctly (this was years ago, so I'm not sure whether they still do it). But I wanted to see if anyone has any more knowledge about this thing than me. If that's what happens, I guess I'll be fine simply keeping these contacts on Google and saving anything on GeneralSync going forward (or any other such alternative service).
We have no visibility into Google’s internal processes. The developers that work on the product would probably know, but the rest of us can only guess.
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