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Do you use all your self hosted services? Are there any you found to be not worth it after installing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always been conservative about what kind of services I host because it takes time to get them set up. For example, there's no reason for me to set up music streaming when I only ever listen to music on my phone and all my music files are already on my phone. On the other hand, it's a good learning opportunity to set stuff up and have to fix it when it breaks. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I tried putting up SearX and NextCloud, without really having used any equivalent cloud services in the past... but eventually both came unstuck, because:

SearX ended up getting blocked by basically every search engine, even though it was a private instance and only I was using it. And even while it worked, the results were not much better than using some other engine like Brave Search or even Startpage. Also, being the only user on that IP, meant that I was still able to be tracked by Google and filter bubbles started being an issue.
NextCloud - just wasn't a need for it. I initially used the RSS reader and email and a few other things, but I already have a good desktop email client and RSS reader and preferred to use them, and other services I just wasn't that interested in. No point putting in the effort maintaining it if I'm not using it.

These were personal instances though. Maybe might have been more successful if I'd had a userbase to serve, who actually were interested in having things web-based and were not so concerned about the inevitable loss in performance compared to desktop apps.