I think that every platform will reach sort of an equilibrium during its lifetime. That relative “plateau” may last for months, years or even longer than that, but I think it will always be reached after its peak.

imho the height of that peak and plateau speak to the overall popularity potential of the platform. Which is just that. A potential to attract masses. Whether maximizing this is a core goal is a different question.

I’d say monthly active looks pretty much stagnant. Of course we would all benefit from greater adoption.

For me it was spezgate that brought me to abandon reddit. Yes, a platform is only as valuable as its userbase. Someone else here boiled it down to “quality over quantity”. I don’t expect this to be the final verdict on the trend.

To me this is a lot like Linux vs Windows market share. Microsoft are currently doing everything in their power to enshittify Windows 11. But the endgame for a community first product like Linux isn’t to promote itself better towards potential switchers. People need to make that switch themselves.

The big tech product will probably always “win” in terms of adoption, even if it is inferior in terms of its own merits. At the end of the day nobody wants to be Microsoft (reddit) in this analogy. And Apple (bsky) isn’t that much better.

Couldn’t say it any better. If stagnant popularity is what is necessary to stay unattractive for botnets and bad actors I personally am all for it.

You’re making a valid point. fwiw I wasn’t trying to advocate for my approach as a best practice I was just saying this is my reality thus far. (I think I’ve been on Vaultwarden for about 2 years now.)

Watchtower itself basically just does “docker pull + down + up” for you, so whether that recreation of the container and any necessary migration work out is up to the software inside. One essential part of my infrastructure that I can think of where breaking changes did necessitate manual intervention was wg-easy my Wireguard container. But that just meant that I was stuck on an outdated version until I transitioned my compose file to get the new stuff. I can’t remember anything ever breaking through an unattended Watchtower update, which maybe I shouldn’t be saying out loud but oh well.

Thanks for the reply. So what kind of magnitude are we talking on the RAM usage here? Some people here talked about not being able to fit it inside 2G total. So I assume it’s probably like hundreds of megs which is only really significant in such low memory configurations.

It’s a completely fair standpoint. You have to look out for your business first. I’m just the sysadmin trying to weigh some counterpoints because I deal with threat aversion and infrastructure hardening on a day-to-day basis.

Once one has a solution that’s at least good enough people will usually stick with that, which is also fair. I know that the decisionmakers who pay my salary can’t have me follow every tech lead where my hourly wage goes to something that’s not a direct moneymaker.

That was the red flag for me personally in terms of giving it a try. At the first accusation they said “the code is there, I have nothing to hide” (which is entirely fair) but then it devolved into (paraphrasing) “I took down issue reporting because people kept abusing it.”

So assuming the best case scenario where the code is clean and it’s just a misunderstanding you’re still looking at a creator who is willing to censor the community they simultaneously seem particularly eager to reach by self-promoting their project. Not my jam.

For how long and how do resource usage and storage space used look by now?

Like I said in my other comment, Vaultwarden is probably not something you could set up yourself but it would basically give you the paid featureset of Bitwarden within all the Bitwarden apps and browser plugins at zero cost or whatever hosting it in the cloud would cost you.

Personally I’d rather have my (albeit thoroughly encrypted) password data on hardware that I control than giving it to someone else. Data sovereignty is something you can’t really “buy” into. Whether your company can justify paying a freelancer or some specialist to do the initial setup is a different question which I think can be answered while imagining a worst case scenario of a company like Bitwarden or 1Password getting hacked. Passwords are never stored in plaintext of course but things like personal or credit card data for example can still get compromised when using a readymade subscription.

Interesting that the current version has this bug. I think around the time I started using Vaultwarden as my Bitwarden backend it was also said that the password-sharing should be treated as experimental, but I have had zero issues with it so far. The Web UI might not be super self-explanatory the first time round when it comes to sharing passwords with others but I mean as far as I know this is the work of a single Bitwarden-employee doing this in their free time. And once you have the org set up you don’t have to rely on the Web UI for any of the sharing, transferring, creating and whatnot anymore.

If it is currently impossible to create new Organizations then I’m sure this week-old bug will be resolved fairly soon, probably with the next release.

Either way OP said they’re not tech-savvy so they would probably need to hire someone to set this up for them, which I wouldn’t say is a ludicrous thing to suggest. Even with the level of encryption that this data is stored with you can never go wrong with the data sovereignty that comes with self-hosting. Once you have Vaultwarden in a Docker container with Watchtower updating it regularly it’s zero maintenance as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t necessarily sync my dotfiles across machines, at least not in a blanket fashion. But I use Seafile to keep all sorts of directories in sync across machines. It’s basically a self-hostable Dropbox.

Also wth is swentr when the logo just says Russia Today?

Is the word still used there?

Leader would be “Anführer” these days. “Führer” was probably a perfectly neutral word before 1933. Now you just can’t use it anymore without alluding to that period. You can call your mountain guide “Bergführer”. All such derived terms are unaffected, but “Führer” is basically off limits for anything outside the Nazi Germany context.

In it’s used context for Hitler it straight up means dictator

From what I gather I don’t think the German people meant it like that (read: they weren’t supposed to). Of course he was the solitary head of state and everybody knew that his word was above any other’s, but addressing him as “my Leader” is much more about ideology than politics. The honorific would’ve probably been “my Chancellor” if it had been about his political authority. As “Führer” he was the figurative savior of the German people after the perceived injustices encapsulated in the WW1 armistice. And he did lead them back towards a sense of national pride that was completely shattered after 1918.

Being a political figure was just a means to an end for him. If he hadn’t been dismissed as a bad artist by a Jewish professor and if WW1 had taken a different course who knows what he would’ve ended up doing with his life. His weapon was his voice and that weapon was fueled by all these toxic convictions. If your hatred is aimed towards entire peoples and nations I guess your only shot at revenge is becoming a politician.

He definitely gets his “digest” of stuff that’s not Fox. If reality doesn’t fit, it gets warped. Like Portland being a burning hellhole. But if reality fits the bill of retaliation then theres nothing that’s beyond their radar. Like obviously he doesn’t watch Canadian TV, much less their political ads. But his sycophants are gonna do pretty much anything to be/get/stay in dear leader’s good graces. Including reading.

I get that. Maybe the irony is lost on me because I have yet to see Microsoft make an effort towards something that an end user would care about. Windows playing Windows games worse than another operating system is entirely expectable.

I guess in that case it’s not irony but rather a shoddy job on Microsoft’s part as per.

That Pocket S Mini at the end of the video has me intrigued. March 2026 unfortunately. I think i will set a reminder for this.

The fact that ISPs can do this should be a fkn outrage. But this is so far removed from what people care about. And so net neutrality gets eroded.

We’ve been through this with Canonical when they tried to shove something into Ubuntu that would’ve only benefited them and nobody else. And I think this is the point. You’re suddenly not all about keeping the web free and open anymore. Suddenly this is a byproduct of your endeavors at best. And for anyone who does mind that shift you really have no other option but to switch to another browser. Today it may be just their beta-programme. Who knows about tomorrow.

We don’t delete our Xitter accounts because the core product has changed, we leave the platform because nothing good can come from morally bankrupt leadership. Comparing X and Mozilla in that regard might be a stretch, but like you said, “Mozilla has plenty of issues”, these don’t get talked about nearly enough.