As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc...
I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and efficiencies of scale are so important.
@aphyr after swearing off being a sysadmin for like a decade and then relapsing a couple years ago I've really been surprised how much it varies from one service to another; like the overhead of hosting soju or gotosocial is pretty close to zero but some bigger web apps can be a real headache
@technomancy @aphyr this is one of my obsessions as well. Let me talk to you about Nextcloud.
I started to create a "package tracker" for self-hosting solutions. I got it working for YunoHost (it produces a website that shows the timeline of app releases vs. YunoHost package releases), because I think making self-hosting easier is a very good objective.
