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Would you self-host your family's memories? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by preludeofme@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've been building a project to preserve family voices, stories, photos, and history, and one question has influenced almost every design decision:

Should something this personal ever require people to trust someone else's servers?

That's what pushed me toward making it open source and fully self-hostable. If someone wants to keep their family's memories on hardware they own, they should be able to.

That said, I know not everyone wants to run a server, so I'm also offering a managed hosted version. The idea isn't to lock anyone into a platform or build another big cloud service—it simply helps fund the project for people who'd rather not manage the infrastructure themselves.

For those of you who self-host, I'm curious:

Would you actually self-host something this personal?

What would make you trust (or distrust) a project like this?

What are some mistakes you've seen developers make when they say they support self-hosting?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing how this community thinks about it before I finish everything up.

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I do, and have printed instructions in a "When I die" sealed envelope.

But I think this is more of a people problem than a technical one. 99% of the pictures in my immich instance are of no interest to anyone else, along with most other things I back up. Some websites I've made I'd like to continue so have their source in github and on free hosting, but eventually the domains will expire and they'll go away.

What you can't provide is selecting what's important enough to the family and what they want shared, which is the hardest part. And in some cases, that's what people post on socials. How you want to be remembered is often just your facebook feed.

[–] preludeofme@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that was part of what I wanted to do too. I was thinking through that and like there's some stories that I wouldn't want to post on Facebook. I know there's ways to do it where you can limit who sees it, but it's not really easy.

I figured this would be more just for family and maybe family friends and I wanted people to be able to have their own data that is for them rather than sometimes open for anyone to see.