You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?

I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular

Looks good!

I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact

It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?

Have you tried the third party ones? I’ve seen recommendations for Swiftfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

I’m not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

• Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?

• What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you’re serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you’re running AI models or something that needs a GPU

General tips:

• take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
• Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don’t need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I’d recommend using Docker Compose since it’s easier to understand what’s happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

For a very basic setup, I’d find a video guide for

• installing Ubuntu server on the machine
• basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn’t affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway

Is the problem iPhone specific, and can you access it fine on other devices? Or is it not accessible at all?

The developer and the project have profiles in Mastodon, it should be possible to tag the accounts in this thread directly

Neat! Looking forward to trying out the new changes.

By the way, you can use one account to post to all the communities. For example, if you wanted to use your lemmy.world account, the links would be something like the following:

• https://lemmy.world/c/opensource@lemmy.ml
• https://lemmy.world/c/foss@beehaw.org

Some guides here:

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-open-in-my-instance

You could also keep using multiple accounts, but I find that to be more tedious.

If the company is gone now then, I guess it would harm whoever bought the rights to the apps or the name? In which case they can contact that entity to sort it out

Cool!

I love the UI for this one, it’s unique compared to the others

I think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.

There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.

There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works :)

crossposting between the communities can help grow both

Being able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)

Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.

This for example:

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

It would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.

Thank you for putting it together though!

You can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)