Rambler

Not OP but moved all my stuff onto hosted Nextcloud, so using Nextcloud photos app. Just as good and no ads.

Frost is the one I use (on F-droid). I like the interface.

Edit: forgot to add it's a wrapper.

I'm using nzbgeek to find stuff. Then put the links it returns into eweka - a usenet provider. I'm new to this, so I'm just dipping my toe in to make sure it works. Currently it does but I'm sure there are better deals if you look around.

About reasonable - Proton is ~£45/year - always on (10 users) - hopefully protected.

I share your pain buddy !

I have a newsgroup subscription, but a lot of the posts are obfuscated (confused titles that don't make sense) so you can't read the post headers like you can in (say) lemmy or reddit (spit! ) . So I also subscribe to a nzb provider (makes sense of the obfuscated) .

In terms of money it's not too much - like £20/year.

The nzb provider searches the usenet then your newsgroup host downloads what you want.

I'm probably not very clear, and this has been a learning curve for me, but if I can help I will, just ask. It's good fun - especially when it works!

Edit: too many 'buts'

Thanks for making it clear - I misunderstood the problem.

On the 2nd para - IRCHighway, you mentioned a link to set it up. I don't see one - maybe me but can you either: send the link so I see it or dm if you have time? It sounds like something I'd like to follow up on.

A fantastic job is being done by you folks - obviously in the face of adversity. Given the amount of users on the instance is at a critical point, would it not be possible to 'move' accounts off it onto other less populated instances ?

Keep up the great work folks - I sympathise for ya.

It should take you progressively back up the tree of comments - it does this on my version of Sync. If a solution hasn't already been posted, you could raise a question here. Currently (with Sync) I don't think the option is available - I start new posts using Connect for Lemmy. Good luck.

Nicely put. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that's the case.