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See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.
I totally get your point! Instead of self-hosting, you could call it a personal cloud.
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#62Ah yeah, love the concept, I had similar goals in mind when making Cardi (although I wasn't aware of many options at the time for putting data in control of the user -- I ended up just having people log in with AWS access keys and it stores data in DynamoDB, which is weird but has actually been working pretty well so far).
https://github.com/pickledish/cardi
Deta seems really interesting, looking forward to seeing where it goes from here! Would love more/better options in this space.
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#64I've been burned at least 3-4x now by bookmark sites shutting down, I just stick with Buku now: https://github.com/jarun/buku Local, text/cli based, sqlite.
Agreed. I use buku and bukuserver because I can view bookmarks on my terminal/cli in addition to the browser page. Bookmark management is in a bad state of affairs. If I'm on my phone or misc. browser, I use Pocket. I then use 'puku' to sync my Pocket urls into buku (with tags). I use bukubrow for Firefox as an extension. I wish there was a better way, but for now it works. If anyone can write an iPhone/Android app,…
[1] https://braintool.org/2021/08/25/Managing-your-Browser-with-...
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#65Is there any supported way to run it on a private server?
Not out of the box no. You could fork and modify it, but that would take a lot of work. Can't recommend Deta Space enough though, it is kind of like self-hosting it without managing an actual server!
When I try to sign up for DetaSpace, I get the following message:
> Exceeded daily email limit for the operation or the account. If a higher limit is required, please configure your user pool to use your own Amazon SES configuration for sending email.
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#67Webcrate is a great name, however the "crate" term strongly implies archival in this context to me. So as a user, I would actually assume that it takes an archive/snapshot of every website that I bookmark. The website doesn't seem to indicate it can do this?
lol, this wouldn't be an HN thread without people bikeshedding over an app's name, would it?
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
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See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.
come on, let's be a bit more inclusive about the term "self-hosting". For instance, I run a few apps in Linode. I manage the virtual servers, and consider myself to be a self-hoster of these webapps (Nextcloud, Drupal, PixelFed, et cetera) These aren't necessarily my servers but at some level, they are.
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#70Can someone recommend a truly self hosted solution? I too use pinboard but I would like to host on my raspi or something
There are many other solutions in the self-hosted space, such as Shiori or LinkAce.