If you like running your own Bitcoin and Lightning node and are feeling empowered by running your own Nostr relay, there are other related rabbit holes for you to go down to give your even more control of your data.

**You can run your own media server with these tools:**

Jellyfin

Radarr

Sonarr

Lidarr

Readarr

Audiobookshelf

**You can run your own photo and video backup server with these tools:**

Immich

PhotoPrism

**You can run your own image sharing server:**

Chevereto

**You can run your own document or office productivity suite:**

NextCloud

CryptPad

LibreOffice

**WARNING:**

Cloud services are *great* because they backup your data and provide continuity for you. Storage devices have a 100% failure rate. If you're storing everything yourself, please look into backup solutions and test them to verify that they do work.

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Self-hosted FOSS is where it’s at 🤙

FOSS has so many benefits, from security to collaboration 🤙

Absolutely, I always find it funny (and disturbing/sad) when people assume that proprietary closed-source software is more secure

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Add Joplin for note taking server. Quite neat with clients in all platforms. End to end encrypted, stored on server.

Great post. Any recommendations on how to test my CCC backups?

#[2] when podcast about these tools at plebstaverne? 👀

Two weeks 👀