An article giving us more and more reasons to continue selfhosting reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- davedorm · 2023-12-30 18:04 Except self-hosting isn't perfect. Ask anyone who has had a hard drive crash and not had a reliable backup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- keirsunishii · 2023-12-30 19:09 So make back ups. Sounds better than having years worth of notes hidden behind a paywall. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JimmyRecard · 2023-12-30 19:41 Sure, but you can mitigate this. There's nothing you can do about services you depend on shutting down. The real problem with self-hosting is that it requires such a high level of technical skill. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rantanlan · 2023-12-30 20:10 Was there … several times, now self-hosting i the only solution for me. Own your shit! fuck corporations! I will rather spend all my money to supporting FOSS devs and projects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dontevendrivethatfar · 2023-12-30 20:58 This is my main reason for self-hosting. I don't want to be dependent on any software that I can't control or reasonably expect to keep working for the next 20-30 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VeryLongHairGuy · 2023-12-30 21:58 And It will only get worse. Each year. Call me pessimist, but every year, you've got a new carrot up your ass. Netflix, Amazon Prime who dare to charge you and add advertising, and to avoid it, you have to pay even more, easily, double what you paid 5 years ago (and don't get me started on inflation, studies show that it's essentially linked to greed today - it was supposed to be about supermarket chains, but it's the same for other sectors). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LawfulMuffin · 2023-12-30 23:41 Also dramatically reduce surface attack too. Even if you’re running ancient stuff that’s full of Swiss cheese, you can always hide it behind whatever the best VPN de jour is and have it be reasonably secure. Having stuff open to the naked internet means it has to be secured and people have a huge incentive to get access to it because it’s a trove of centralized info ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ZaxLofful · 2023-12-31 00:12 Wow, so glad I didn’t choose this the last time I was thinking about notes! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sir_dancealot · 2023-12-31 00:34 Ultimately I hope the next generation of self hosted software is focused on lowering the barrier of entry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- corecrash · 2023-12-31 01:17 I’ve decided to cancel everything. I self host, I’m going back to brick and mortar shopping, cash instead of credit cards, etc. All of these tech companies are greedy and using our data to track us and train their AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- corecrash · 2023-12-31 01:18 That’s easy to guard against. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- corecrash · 2023-12-31 01:20 Open source developers are lot great at making easily installable software. Thank god I have a computer science degree and it’s easy, but a normal person could never get this all working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- avatar_one · 2023-12-31 04:35 Same as you had to know a bit about cars when owning one, you own it and you have to do the maintenance (to a certain limit). Or any PC hardware, free to be open and upgraded however you like, so you have to know a bit about it :) It's worth the effort in my opinion :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CloysterBrains · 2023-12-31 11:00 The biggest problem is the best self-hosted notes apps aren't exactly beginner friendly. I've never gotten Joplin Server working, Nextcloud is a whole thing beyond just notes, and Obsidian is great but has no server so you need a flatfile sync of some kind. Unless something's changed in the last couple years there's no easy, secure notes app that I can just have running without spending a whole weekend on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThaCrrAaZyyYo0ne1 · 2023-12-31 14:56 Evernote suprised me too. Now I have a hard task, how can I migrate all my notes to a self- hosted service? That has the similar way of saving a website? Appreciate any help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jenishngl · 2023-12-31 15:54 I tried memos for basic notes. It was very easy to configure as well i believe. Try it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coax888 · 2023-12-31 16:05 what are you using fir notes ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rantanlan · 2023-12-31 16:16 joplin with joplin server as a backend... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NimrodJM · 2023-12-31 16:53 We should actually thank Evernote for their greed. Without them, I and many others wouldn’t have gotten started on the self-hosting path and the state of independent apps wouldn’t be where they are today. I remember being thoroughly pissed off that Evernote would turn their back on the very people who helped make them as popular as they were. I swore I would never trust my data to an online company again… and I haven’t. Yes, some of the apps I rely on are not quite as polished as those distributed by big companies, but I can see the regular updates adding capabilities and fixing the little issues the user community has found. When was the last time Evernote listened to their users? I’ll happily contribute to the developers who make the open source, self- hosted apps that I use. Keep it going! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Garry_G · 2023-12-31 23:23 Luckily, Internet and servers are my professional career, which means I have been running my own services for 25 years... I've been switching from cloud services (if I ever used them to start with) like Dropbox etc to self-hosted variants with just about everything. I understand typical users aren't able to, and will never be...