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.

  • therealSoasa@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s an evolution of services and data , those who can, self host. Those who don’t self host, can - we don’t discriminate here 😉

    All views in this post are of my own even though they are hosted on Reddit servers subscriptions sold separately & Batteries not included.