I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps - eviltoast

I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.

For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

  • mrkesu@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

    I have been online for a long time and seen countless services come and go, often my data goes with them.

    So that was my reason for a long time, having my data available and not relying on some third party.

    Now, with the emergence of Big Data + AI I’ve also become a lot more privacy aware. Before I couldn’t even imagine why anyone would want to target my data (data mining takes a lot of work to be useful), but now/soon they can just point AI at data dumps and ask it something like “give me a list of X people to exploit, order it by method, chance of success etc etc”

    Paranoia? Yes, but suddenly it feels reasonable to be paranoid.