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

submitted 1 day 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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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 1 day ago

I'm already hosting something similar I think. I am hosting a Immich instance for me and my wife to back up our photos from phones and computers and I also host a PeerTube instance for videos and some audio (I don't have so much audio only).

What would make me trust a special software for it is things which validate it from outside like stars on github or other people blogging about it what they're using it, and history which is at least a year so I can see that it's not just a quickly vibecoded project which will be abandoned soon. Also if there would be a export to HTML or so so that I could get a static archive if the project really stops being supported.