Can we host it ourselves a la Mastodon / Lemmy / Fediverse stuff?

What part of this is self-hosted?

Maybe cockpit?

Free/TrueNAS.

You should. If they’ll literally stop talking to you over an app choice how good of friends are they?

I feel the exact opposite – I feel like they encourage tinkering in their own way, since they offer the ability to much more easily roll back to a known good configuration.

I felt like winget was too limited. When I last used it it didn’t support installing multiple apps at the same time. scoop feels much more like traditional *nix package management to me, which I like.

Some items trigger UAC (installing tailscale, for example)

I love that everying lives in ~/scoop. It’s well organized and somewhat portable (until you import the nonportable bucket)

For package management I’ve been really liking scoop.sh

Not everything in there is FOSS but scoop itself is! And you can install neovim, vscodium, bitwarden, Firefox, etc very easily.

Been listening for nearly a decade. They’re amazingly consistent!

Funkwhale kinda fits the bill. IIRC its federated.

This is fantastic. I have but one request: Allow us to block any word / string we want :)

I am so glad F-Droid exists. For the apps I need that aren’t there (Steam and Blizzard authenticator for 2FA) Aurora has been a godsend