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Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I'm in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it's a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they're still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that's just ONE service...

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[–] danzabia@infosec.pub 52 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Have you considered the possibility that, if you have 2k bookmarks, this isn't necessarily a self-hosting issue, but rather a bookmark hoarding issue :)

[–] TrustedTyrant@sopuli.xyz 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That’s why I don’t go back and reorganize old bookmarks. I just start fresh every time.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 12 hours ago

This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I'm not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I'll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I know, right!? Do I have to let go? Yes! Am I defined as a person by the shit I accumulate? No!

[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Sometimes hitting delete is the best thing you can do. Especially bookmarks, how many of them is out of date, or not relevant to you any more. And if you needed some of it, you can find it again. Sure, there is a few things a bit harder to find, but it should take less time than sort through 2k bookmarks. 😀