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Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I'm in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it's a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they're still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that's just ONE service...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Just 2k in bookmarks? Pffft! Those are rookie numbers. Check back when you have 59k bookmarks. Currently there are 1.1k in the broken links category. The vast majority of the links are topics I research or have interest in, exterior of self-hosting. I do not consume TV data, but I do a ton of reading. I find that reading gives me better retention of the topic, and it's rather easy to highlight & search for cross comparisons, and further research. Ever since I was a wee lad, barely able to read, I have had an insatiable lust for knowing. It is this that drives the link counts. LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

This is so foreign to me. I never bookmark anything ever. I leave a few tabs open until I complete that task, read that article or decide I don't care anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Manual web crawler at that point

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

LOL Never thought of it like that, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When I need something I'll ask you instead of google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

That's the neat part...