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My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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What’s the purpose of appending ?ref=selfh.st to every outgoing link? Generally you can’t just make up parameters for other people’s websites.

To allow the maintainers of the projects to see in the traffic analytics where an influx of stars comes from, I guess

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/viewing-activity-and...

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Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

There are many tools that provide this experience but you then lose some of customization. Some examples are Cosmos ( https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server ) Younohost ( https://yunohost.org/ ) Runtipi ( https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi )

Thanks for the list. I hadn't heard of some of those.

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

> The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app

For the majority of them, there's a docker container, often with example configs. It's not that far removed from installing a mobile app and then having a wizard ask you how you want stuff configured.

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Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

As far as I know, there are no inherent problems preventing simple installations. You make it sound like there is.

No inherent problems, just a very fractured landscape where install could involve: Linux, MacOS, Windows, WSL, Docker, or AWS. If your setup has anything that differs from the developer, it could unexpectedly take hours of extra troubleshooting.

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post #11
post #5

What’s the purpose of appending ?ref=selfh.st to every outgoing link? Generally you can’t just make up parameters for other people’s websites.

To allow the maintainers of the projects to see in the traffic analytics where an influx of stars comes from, I guess https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/viewing-activity-and...

Surely that must use conventional HTTP referrer data—for which we have well established standards, decades of experience managing interactions and edge cases, and norms for respecting user consent—and not some apparently wishful query parameter?

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I’m interested in the alternative YouTube front ends like Pinchflat and Glance mentioned here. Ideally I’d avoid scrolling the YouTube homepage while still giving views and likes/subscribed to the creators I watch, because it helps support them (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do). I do find the archiving/downloading case meaningful as well, since a few yt vids that I enjoyed…

I use pinchflat mostly for archiving channels that occasionally take videos down. It technically has an inbuilt video player, but that's more for "debugging". The intended non-archival usecase is have the download folder picked up by your Plex or Jellyfin and watch it there.

Of course that deprives you from interaction with the actual youtube content. But for support, $1/month on the creator's patreon goes further, and for engagement you can join the creator's discord. The only thing you are really missing out on is feeding the youtube algorithm.

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post #4

Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

There are many tools that provide this experience but you then lose some of customization. Some examples are Cosmos ( https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server ) Younohost ( https://yunohost.org/ ) Runtipi ( https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi )

Also most of the popular NAS setups. I'm pretty happy self-hosting everything on my Unraid server. I just checked, all of the tools in the article are in Unraid's App center (except Streamyfin which is a phone app). And if something isn't you can add docker containers or VMs as necessary.

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post #15
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To allow the maintainers of the projects to see in the traffic analytics where an influx of stars comes from, I guess https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/viewing-activity-and...

Surely that must use conventional HTTP referrer data—for which we have well established standards, decades of experience managing interactions and edge cases, and norms for respecting user consent—and not some apparently wishful query parameter?

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.referer

  A user agent SHOULD NOT send a Referer header field if the referring resource was accessed with a secure protocol and the request target has an origin differing from that of the referring resource, unless the referring resource explicitly allows Referer to be sent. A user agent MUST NOT send a Referer header field in an unsecured HTTP request if the referring resource was accessed with a secure protocol.
In other words, it's not guaranteed that this Referer header is set. One can of course choose to remove the query parameter.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely that must use conventional HTTP referrer data—for which we have well established standards, decades of experience managing interactions and edge cases, and norms for respecting user consent—and not some apparently wishful query parameter?

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.referer A user agent SHOULD NOT send a Referer header field if the referring resource was accessed with a secure protocol and the request target has an origin differing from that of the referring resource, unless the referring resource explicitly allows Referer to be sent. A user agent MUST NOT send a Referer header field in an unsecured HTTP request if the referring resour…

Yes, that’s the part about interactions and consent. The intent then is to circumvent that? A case of those pesky matters of security and respect for human dignity getting in the way of SEO?

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

I self host about 30 services. Each of them is in a docker container and I do not know what happens inside.

I only configure the startup in a YAML file and I am done. Works great.

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