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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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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You could use an llm with an mcp to the local filesystem and hope it can do it for you

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[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Content management makes up very little of what I self host.

That stuff's just curated and is always been curated as I take new things that I need I curate them.

Then there's another class of data I deal with which is synchronization. Synchronization as the wheat and the chaff in it and if any of it goes away I don't really care because anything that was really worth keeping already got curated.

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