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Fun/interesting things to self host? (lemmy.world)
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What things do you self host (or know about) that are fun/interesting/useful to you? I'm thinking of setting up a home server and am looking for things that would be useful or fun for me to run on it. I want to host things that are useful/fun, but not a project itself (I've got enough projects), if that makes sense.

Most of the lists I see online are mostly lists of technical projects like docker, kubernetes, grafana, nginx, etc. I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself. ETA: the infra is important, but not "interesting" in this context as I deal with infra at my day job.

Examples of the type of service I'm looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation... What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

Edit: thank you everyone for your awesome responses!

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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Personally:

Nextcloud (file backup and so much more, I use it to backup files from my computer. Might explore some of the other features soon)

Immich (image backup, I use it to back up photos from my camera + phone)

Radicale (CalDAV + CardDAV for calendar and contacts sync)

Forgejo (GitHub alternative, and the backend of Codeberg! I use this as a local backup to my git repos in addition with cloud backup with Codeberg. They work nice together, when you set two remotes per git repo)

Vikunja (to-do list syncing, don't use this anymore as I mostly use Joplin for this now)

Joplin (Markdown editor, supports cloud sync with nextcloud, I use this for both notes and to-dos!)

I used to run ConvertX (to convert any file type, whether it's document, image, video, etc. Think a self-hosted CloudConvert), but I somehow messed up the user permissions and couldn't log in (100% user error on my part), so I didn't bother.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Another thing, "Navidrome" is a self-hosted spotify alternative (I don't use it, I just have the MP3s and OGGs stored locally for offline playback!)

    Jellyfin is a self-hosted netflix alternative. Where you get the media is up to you...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Home Assistant seems like a really good option if you want smart home stuff, but I personally have a "dumb" home and not planning on getting wifi light bulbs any time soon.

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