This is already a thing, there are a myriad of LLM chat interfaces where you can either connecting to models you are locally running or connect to APIs of providers. “Open WebUI”, “librechat” and “Big-AGI” are web interfaces. On desktop you have things like jan.ai and a a lot more.

Nextcloud can do this and replace a bunch of other google services in the process.

Looking at what you said so far though I am not entirely sure if you want to go down the route of self hosting yet. Which is okay, it involves a lot of work and knowledge to do right. Something you might not want to risk your contacts for if you are still learing. There are services that provide nextcloud hosting. Personally I am using Hetzner, a Germany based hosting provider: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

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I forgot to mention, you’ll also need to do some fiddling with your phone to sync things: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/en/groupware/sync_android.html

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No I am curious what will happen if I try to use a really big image…

Edit: Good, at least Lemmy doesn’t allow it to break the page layout :)

It’s markdown inline images so yeah you can do any image.

Isn’t that just markdown images?

Looks like it is, also looks like you can basically inline link any image you want. Which… isn’t ideal actually for a variety of reasons.

The only thing I could ever get anyone to say was that they hated emojis because they made people seem immature.

Depending on context, that can be a legitimate objection against using them. On the other hand, when used sparingly I don’t mind them, I even see them being used internally at my work in a corporate environment. I am still not a fan of emojis on platforms like Lemmy depending on how they are used though. I just wrote a different comment about this and then saw yours, in order to not repeat myself: https://beehaw.org/comment/608537

Hopefully this is a bit more of an explanation that does make sense. 😉

I am not against emojis overall. But to put it in perspective, the way emojis work they do draw a lot of extra attention to themselves. Specifically because they don’t follow text color so are really distinct. So to me, personally, a text with a lot of emojis sprinkled in can come across as busy to the point of distracting to read or a bit shouty.

In my (again personal) view emojis, smilies, etc are most useful when used in moderation on key points in a message. It’s also with that reason that on platforms like Lemmy, reddit or basically any old forum I do think they generally don’t have a place in titles.

I hope that this makes sense? 🙂

Edit: To maybe clarify it a bit further

Emojis can also basically be a type of “fluff content”:

“The Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it.”

Source: Article by Paul Graham

What this means is basically the following, say you have two submissions:

1. An article - takes a few minutes to judge.
2. An image - takes a few seconds to judge.

So in the time that it takes person A to read and judge he article person B, C, D, E and F already saw the image and made their judgement. So basically images will rise to the top not because they are more popular, but simply because it takes less time to vote on them, so they gather votes faster.

To get back to the title thing I mentioned. More often than not I see people use emojis in titles not to strengthen the title, but simply to draw attention to it. And the same thing I have seen in in messages in general. Like I said above, it then starts to approach “shouting” from my perspective. So it isn’t emojis themselves I then have an issue with, it is just that they then fall in the same category as ALL CAPS and bolded text that shouldn’t be bolded and all that.

If you were trying to manage a server with 2k active users 7 mods isn’t all that much. Assuming for a moment this was a little while ago (discord did release some pretty nifty mod tools over the last year or so) and you had not set anything up in regards to third party bots.

With the newest discord modtools in addition with third party bots discord is in my experience very good to manage for a chat platform. Certainly much easier than IRC ever was and still is for that matter.