If it is then not enough people have heard of YUNOhost.

Another +1 for YUNOhost. I went from zero experience self-hosting to having my own email, fediverse instance, file server and several websites on a VPS. I would never have had the patience to figure this out without it.

I really like this pic - thanks for posting.

AFAIK If you host GotoSocial it links out to the instances where content is hosted, rather than downloading it as a copy. I have a single-user instance on a tiny VPS and it uses hardly any resources. I think part of the reason for that is the above. You have to use a client application with it because there is no web interface, which I think is partly why it is so lightweight.

Might be worth looking at if you’re concerned about accidentally hosting things you don’t want.

Immich sounds great.

Does it have E2EE? I rent a VPS and would prefer personal files that I have on it to be protected.

The U.S. empire is falling and I feel the entire world no longer gives a fuck

I think, like me, most thinking people in Europe do give a fuck about the ordinary Americans who have had no responsibility for all of this. But your government has made it clear to us that it’s not an ally and has basically said “fuck you” to us.

Not much to do now.

I’ve been wanting to do exactly this for a long time. Is there any documentation on how to set it up?

They should check out YUNOhost.

I’m a complete noob

selfhost files with nextcloud and imich

You should definitely use YUNOhost :)

A few months ago I would accuse Americans here of being a bit hysterical but not any more.

You can easily install most of those services on YUNOhost - in fact I have a bunch of them running on a cheap VPS. All open source. It even comes with email and XMPP out of the box. I had no hosting experience beforehand and I rarely have to touch it these days. I would want more resources if I had 10 people using the whole Nextcloud suite every day but if you wanted to go the VPS route I’m sure you could easily do it for less than €5/month/person. You can run it on your own hardware as well.

I haven’t tried it yet but Calibre Web looks like what you need. A good write-up on it here. Looks like you can enable uploads from your phone.

Do it! It’s madness that YUNOhost is not more well-known, considering what it does.

Check out YUNOhost - it’s pre-configured for you and designed for beginners. Mine’s been running for about three years on a VPS with no problems and I had no previous experience with self-hosting.

Definitely keep your files backed up locally though. No server is invincible.

Check out YUNOhost, if you haven’t already. It’s designed to simplify self-hosting for beginners.

I use YUNOhost on a VPS and it came with email out of the box. Which is just as well because I had no previous experience self-hosting!

I think I had a couple of emails get marked as spam in the beginning but everything has been totally fine for the last 2/3 years.

I’ve been using YUNOhost for the last 3 years and it’s been great. I had no prior experience and would have had no chance of self-hosting without it.

YUNOhost FTW!

I would never have gotten into self-hosting without it.

Thanks :) I’m happy to chat to any musicians who read this and are curious about alternative release options.

These exploitation economies are a race to the bottom.

That’s exactly what they are and exactly what they do.

I don’t have any app suggestions for you but have been reading through the comments and just wanted to say that I’m 100% with you.

I have a similar conversation with other musicians I know and it’s the reason that I (and many others) won’t release anything on Spotify: Just being there adds value to them and what they do is destructive and dirty.

I hope you find something and keep standing up for what’s right!