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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
10
submitters
10
observed span
2015–2019
peak thread · 25 comments
138 pts
latest 20+ return · 2019-08-09
138 pts

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2007–2026

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I highly recommend Nextcloud. It started as a FOSS Dropbox clone, but they have since implemented easily installable server plugins (which they call "apps") that allow your personal Nextcloud server to fill the role of many other SaaS products. https://apps.nextcloud.com/

swebs·138-point thread·

This is good to see. I feel like self-hosting is no longer really a priority for a lot of people, even privacy advocates. As things get more cloudy, people end up trusting these third party services more and more. Even businesses and schools are using cloud services like crazy. I think there should be more talk about federation, exporting and importing data. It also seems like serverless is the new hotness and getting a lot of former self-hosted advocates' eyeballs…

jalami·101-point thread·

This is awesome! Kudos to the poster. There are other lists like these, but an updated one (especially covering this many areas) is good. I started a series of posts on http://flintbox.me around this topic (specifically self-hosting on lightweight hardware like Raspberry Pis), and it's a great way to keep sensitive data off the cloud (or even just if you want to keep control of your data). Self-hosting is becoming easier, cheaper, and quite powerful, and should definitely not be…

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Breakout years
2

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Total points
267

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Total comments
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