Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.
But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!
I’m in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it’s a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they’re still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!
And that’s just ONE service…
Content management makes up very little of what I self host.
That stuff’s just curated and is always been curated as I take new things that I need I curate them.
Then there’s another class of data I deal with which is synchronization. Synchronization as the wheat and the chaff in it and if any of it goes away I don’t really care because anything that was really worth keeping already got curated.