Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 37

@ajdunevent @ajdunevent

Thank you, they're nice photos! 🌱 🌺 👍

@Dayglochainsaw

Yes, I would highly recommend NextCloud:

https://nextcloud.com

They are also on here at:

@nextcloud

It's really easy to install and use, and they have really good apps for all major platforms.

You can also use them without self-hosting through third party hosting services.

@Johannab @paulakreuzer

Sometimes fediverse accounts on different instances will appear blank when you first search for them. This is true for Mastodon accounts too. (This seems to happen if no one on your instance has followed them before?)

If you follow them, their future posts should start appearing on your timeline.

Did you know you can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon?

Just paste the Pixelfed account's address into the Mastodon search box, click search, then click on the follow button.

Alternatively, if an account is already connected to your instance you can @ it directly.

A couple of days ago Paula shared her excellent #Pixelfed account:

@paulakreuzer

Are there other nice Pixelfed accounts people would recommend following?

More #MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

#Mastodon #PixelFed

@jeybe @rysiek

Thank you, that webapp looks really useful!

@badrihippo @msh @jrt

I hope I'm wrong, but AFAIK there is still no way of self-hosting Mycroft?

(I asked for links about this a while ago, but people just pointed me to future plans.)

@badrihippo @jrt @msh

There's a hobbyst Snips site here:
https://makers.snips.ai

@badrihippo @msh @jrt

Snips works offline (i.e. without a server) but it still seems to be aimed at hobbyists and businesses rather than consumers.

@badrihippo @msh @jrt

Mycroft relies on a centralised server.

There was some talk of them offering an entirely self-hosted version, but as far as I know that hasn't actually happened.

@badrihippo @jrt

Snips is open source but the source isn't linked from the front page (I don't know why):

https://github.com/snipsco

@jrt

I don't know, but maybe someone else can help?

@bane @matrix07012

Switching.social generally isn't aimed at self-hosters.

@bane

They don't match switching.social's target audience.

Pleroma and Misskey don't have onboarding for non-tech people.

@fitheach

The page will have self-hosted fonts listed as the main alternative, and system fonts listed below that.

Just to make clear, I'm looking for tutorials I can link to which tell people how to use system fonts on their website.

Just working on the Google Fonts alternatives page.

-Does anyone know a good tutorial on using system fonts on a website?

-Also, can you recommend a website for downloading free open licensed fonts?

#GoogleFonts #Alternatives