This Week in Self-Hosted (24 March 2023)
Site updates, WordPress reviews, Fediverse tours, and more news about ChatGPT and other AI-related applications
Site Update
We posted a thread to reddit's self-hosted community yesterday stating our intention to sunset selfh.st/ed after continuing to receive what we considered substantial threats and harassment for the content we've been providing. While we value the self-hosted community, we aren't interested in endangering our livelihood to provide free content each week.
After sharing our thoughts, we received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from the community surrounding specific content that we believe we can continue providing without provoking temperamental members of the community.
As a result, our current plan is to shift selfh.st/ed into a weekly newsletter where we'll feature the same content typically shared each Friday while rolling in some of the less provoking content also generated on our site (polls, discussions). We have a backlog of editorial content that we'd love to share in the future should we ever feel comfortable doing so and are also considering opening the site to others confident enough to share their own content.
Thanks to all for the continued support as we've worked so hard to become another great resource for the self-hosted and open-source communities. We're flattered by the comments we've received and want to emphasize that as always, we're committed to seriously listening to your feedback as we work to find our own voice while also providing value to a community that has given us so much.
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Industry Activity
- WordPress 6 review: The self-hosted CMS benchmark
- Mozilla Open Source AI To Challenge ChatGPT & Bard
- A 5-minute tour of the Fediverse
Notable Software Releases
- Ghost (blogging/content management) adds minors features to newsletters, including new, minimal e-mail types and member comment invitations
- changedetection.io updates to v0.41 to include a product restock monitor, various notification improvements, and snapshot resource improvements
- Nextcloud introduces Hub 4 to integrate intelligent features across apps, as well as beta apps for Talk on the desktop
- Gitea updates to v1.19.0 with various fixes, security updates, enhancements, and feature updates
- Reddit user u/SensitiveCranberry launches Serge, a chat interface and self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT
- Reddit user u/aem003 launches LinkThing, an iOS app for Linkding
Community Highlights
- FLOSSing for Lent (Daily posts featuring a FLOSS application for the 40 days of Lent)
- I'm Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer
- awesome-totally-open-chatgpt
- Why did you decide to self-host?
Weekly Poll
Which media server software are you leveraging to stream your movies and TV shows?
Click here to check out the results of last week's poll.
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