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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jaackf@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

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[-] dinosaurdynasty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

An RSS reader (I use Miniflux), ended up being extremely useful

Almost every piece of software worth selfhosting has an RSS feed for updates (e.g., every GitHub releases page has an RSS feed). I started selfhosting a good deal more after setting up Miniflux.
Like omg there is this whole internet out there outside of Reddit/Twitter/etc that does RSS. The vast majority of blogs have RSS (e.g., Wordpress and Substack). I wish I had discovered RSS decades ago, so many websites I've forgotten because I would check updates manually and eventually just forget. I even host a personal Nitter instance so I can follow Twitter people in Miniflux.

[-] fung@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I should get back into RSS. I used to follow a ton of web comics way back in the day, but once google RSS shut down I never picked it back up. I'll look into Miniflux, thanks.

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