How is it not decentralized?

EteSync?

Are you trying to censor him?!

I’m not saying that cost of power is entirely irrelevant.

I’m saying that “My setup consumes a lot of power, but that’s fine because it doesn’t cost me much” is kind of backwards. While monetary cost certainly is one of the arguments for energy efficiency, responsibly using resources and avoiding wasting energy are way more compelling ones imo. That especially applies if your energy isn’t produced via renewable means.

Even if power was entirely free of monetary cost, you shouldn’t waste it, don’t you agree?

I really don’t like how people most commonly try to justify the monetary cost of their power consumption.

In my opinion the way more important metrics should be how the energy you are consuming is generated and how much carbon emissions are caused by it.

Who cares that your 2000W@230V idle are “free”, if that means you are burning crude oil in your backyard to generate it…

What address is sshd listening on?

It would need to be able to listen to incoming connections via the VPN’s tunnel device. So either 0.0.0.0 (so all addresses) or explicitly on whatever the tunnel’s assigned address is, I think.

This could also be a firewall issue, can you share your routing tables?

There is Spacebar (formerly Fosscord) aiming to be a drop-in discord-compatible replacement. I’m not sure how usuable it is yet, since I haven’t gotten around to try it, but it does look like a promising solution imo.