🤷 just my opinion as requested in the post. You’ve given yours. No idea what you mean about astroturfing

Probably not what you’re looking for but I find the https://alternativeto.net/ news pretty good for software

Somebody started this project a while back but I don’t think it’s live any more https://github.com/Flockingbird

Good question 🤔 it’s a progressive web app rather than ‘app’. If FDroid uses the same sources then the functionality will presumably be similar

Yes you’re probably right. It’s called library of things locally. The hire costs are very low but necessary for sustainability of the scheme

There’s usually a fee for borrowing items so it would need to connect to a payment system 👍

Thankyou, that’s really helpful 🙏

Thanks, I saw this and discounted because of the books focus but perhaps it’s easy enough to add different categories. I’ll take another look 👍👍

Have also had this suggested https://www.odoo.com/app/rental

I did this, we used https://masto.host/ and prevented other registrations. You can also make the posts invisible to people who aren’t logged in

Separate dongle for internet using a hotspot can help. No system is perfect but Linux phone is an excellent first step

You’d want to be using only Linux apps that weren’t recording and reporting everything. Much easier to get in Linux than Apple/android

Somebody was working on one but not sure it’s live any more https://github.com/Flockingbird

I succeeded using linkding which I’m hosting on pikapods https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding https://pikapods.com/

Just uninstalled Jerboa after using Lemmy on Firefox. So smooth! 👍👍

Another one here. Inveterate distro hopper now firmly anchored with fedora