They essentially mean something like https://a.aliexpress.com/_EIX2dNj
The price is comparable to a Raspberry Pi
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As someone that has only recently started selfhosting stuff, I can't offer much advice. But having bought an RPi5, which runs most of my things, I'll tell you this finding from my research. They're awesome, but the SD cards don't last long, so ideally you want to minimise the writes. I'm not sure a Matrix server allows you to do that. Though it absolutely can handle all of the above.
You're not wrong. But people are lazy. They want to go where everyone is and have FOMO they'll miss something good by not being on the biggest instance.
A few of the bigger instances have been very open about the fact that they're anti-piracy, anti-porn, etc and removing this community is par for the course with such a stance.
What does that mean for the average user? It means there's more incentive to move to better instances. It's when instances have such a monopoly on users and communities that people should not only move, but advocate for other people moving to smaller instances.
Also a major benefit of not being federated by large instances is that there's less surface area for search engines and thus resources last longer.
The comments suggest this is a cul-de-sac, with OS400 and Pick OS having thoroughly traversed this ground.
Don't think I was questioning you, I was, if anything agreeing with you. I feel like Symfonium is the most feature complete and yet there's a very things about it that I really dislike.
That said, check out Tempo, it looks like it has the most potential.
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The thing with self hosting is that you want in most cases, to set and forget and that means you want as little going wrong as possible. To ensure that, you need to find a way that other things can't fuck with what you're hosting. This is called a container. The trade off is disk space, but that's okay because it's a server, unlike on a computer, but let me not start my rant about the stupidity of Snap and Flatpak. Anyway... Thanks to containers, you don't have any external factors and basically everything runs in its own world. Which means you can always delete, restore and edit without anything else being affected.
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So I've just got my Navidrome up and running and I have a family library too. That said, I'm in the middle of organising things on the backend, because previously I was constrained by size and tried to avoid duplicates with a flat directory structure, but I digress...
In Navidrome, you're able to favourite artists and most clients then allow you to browse through that favourite list. Also if you're anal like me, you use ratings and stars and you can set up smart playlists to play you songs you like a lot that you haven't played for a long time.
Yeah. You can pretty much mitigate all of your concerns with an SSD. But I've never run anything public facing. So make sure you confirm that there's people running said services on Pis before you pull the trigger.