This Week in Self-Hosted (24 February 2023)

Industry Activity

• Houseparty’s founder launches Towns, an open source group chat web app and protocol
• Mozilla Study: Data Privacy Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading
• What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community?
• Elon Musk suggests Twitter could open source its algorithm ‘next week’

Notable Software Releases

• Immich 1.48.0 – Feature update to now include iOS background uploads, revamps to the machine learning code, and various bug fixes
• dockcheck-web, an application to monitor Docker image updates, releases a brand new web UI for container management
• Initial launch of Cogito, a second brain app to centralize saved articles and notes with native tagging and search capabilities

Community Highlights

• What have you chosen not to self-host – and why?
• A Home Assistant user's creative Alexa-triggered intruder alert

Weekly Poll Results

This week's poll featured an app category we see discussed often – RSS feeds and aggregators. We chose what we've found to be the most recommended and put them head-to-head. Here are the results.

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The Prickly Developer Who Built a Self-Hosted Gem

How the toxic culture at Tiny Tiny RSS tarnished its reputation in the self-hosted community

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App Spotlight: Rallly, a Self-Hosted Doodle Poll Alternative

An open-sourced polling app to find optimal event timing based on participant availability

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Weekly Poll: Which RSS feed reader/aggregator are you using?

21 February 2023

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