This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)

Weekly Highlights

It's no surprise to regular readers of my content that I'm a big fan of Hoarder, a bookmark-slash-read-later platform launched in 2024. This week – two months after announcing the project was being threatened with legal action for copyright infringement – it was officially rebranded to Karakeep. (According to the dev, the name was inspired by a similar Arabic word that means clutter or odds and ends that hold personal value or hidden usefulness.)

If you've deployed Hoarder, note the repo's org and name change and monitor upcoming updates closely for any impacts this might have on you.

A few other things that piqued my interest this week:

• I discovered Cloudflare and Bitwarden both have very useful tools for managing SSH keys
• Tailscale announced it recently raised $160 million in tote bag sales a new round of funding (cue the onslaught of dialogue concerning its eventual enshittification)
• Plex released a somewhat tone-deaf response to the many criticisms of its new mobile app (by the way, whatever happened to Plex Photos?)
• I finally noticed the Homepage icon isn't just a bookmark – the bottom forms the shape of a house

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Key insights from the 2025 State of Open Source Report

Each year, the State of Open Source Report offers a valuable pulse check on the global Open Source ecosystem—and the 2025 edition is no exception. Produced by Perforce OpenLogic, in partnership with the Eclipse Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, this report uncovers the latest trends, tensions, and transformations shaping how Open Source is adopted, managed, and scaled in organizations of all sizes.

Open Source InitiativeNick Vidal

It’s Been One Week With the New Experience on Mobile—And We’re Just Getting Started

What a week! We kicked off the rollout to a small percentage of our newly updated Plex mobile app for iOS and Android, and we want to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who’s jumped in—explored, shared feedback, and helped shape the future of Plex mobile. We’ve heard from so many of you across the forums, Reddit, and beyond. Your passion is loud and clear—and that’s exactly what we love about this community. Let’s Talk About What’s Happening We’ve been building this new mobile exper…

Plex ForumPlexInfo

MAS migration unleashes Element X on Matrix.org

With MAS having landed on the matrix.org server, Element X is now by far the best way to manage your matrix.org account on mobile.

Element BlogSteve Loynes

Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet

Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.

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2024 Self-Host User Survey Results

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You are all a bunch of sick freaks.

You are all a bunch of sick freaks. I stumbled onto this subreddit looking for tips on running a basic Plex server, and holy shit, you people are insane. Instead of finding normal humans, I find complete psychos debating ZFS configurations like they’re discussing fine wine. “Ah yes, this RAIDZ2

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Community Content

Open-Source is Just That

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

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Miniflux Is the Last RSS Reader I’ll Ever Need

A self-hosted feed reader that doesn’t try to be clever. Just fast, quiet, and functional.

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Replacing Maps Timeline With Owntracks

Why move? Where to go? Setting it all up MQTT Owntracks Recorder Importing Timeline Data Using Home Assistant as location tracer Timeline is (sort of) shutting down Does this look familiar? Maps has been nagging me about Timeline going device-only for quite a few months now. That means that it will no longer be accesible in a browser, only on the local device Google Maps app. And while I’ve been phasing out Google services for a while now it’s finally the push I needed to seriously look into alternatives for this particular use case.

My random ramblings

Supercharge Your Home Cluster Using Cloudflare Tunnel

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Content Spotlight: Streamystats

Meet Streamystats, a self-hosted platform for tracking and viewing Jellyfin watch and listen data. Similar to tools like Tautulli for Plex, Streamystats tracks a variety of statistics that can be used to visualize and analyze users trends, library statistics, and media consumption over time. Features include live sessions, user-specific watch histories, popular item tracking, watch time graphs, support for multiple servers and users, and sync options.

(The application's developer is also the lead developer behind Streamyfin, a popular mobile iOS and Android Jellyfin client!)

Streamystats can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate PostgreSQL database for external data storage.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Leaving Linux | Linux Prepper Podcast
• Improving Security with Hardware Keys - Authentik & Pocket-ID | Jim's Garage
• DNS Failover designs for Home Lab | VirtualizationHowTo
• I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling
• What hardware runs in my HomeLab in 2025? | Christian Lempa

Command Line Corner: curl wttr.in

Use curl wttr.in to view a formatted forecast of the local weather directly from the terminal:

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