Good blog post, thanks for sharing.

I fully agree with your points about real openness, I think this “file over app philosophy” is the way to go for every self hosted app – make it possible get the data out of there.

What I did not quite understand is why using XML is slower? Why is that – are parsers just slower in general? I do not have a lot of experience with XML, but I always thought it pretty much doesn’t matter whether you send your data via JSON or XML. And how does your JSON structure solve the problem of “content heavyness”?

Great job, thanks for sharing.

I tried to get my head around this too and wrote this a while ago: https://lemmy.world/post/34986579 – I called it localhosting, and it’s about some ideas that could bring more people into the boat.

I haven’t made much progress unfortunately, but I do believe that selfhosting needs to become more accessible for non techies. It’s a pity how many great open-source selfhostable alternatives are out there, and how little people can actually install and maintain them. This gap is wild to me.

Thanks a lot for bringing yunohost up, this looks very very interesting. I will bring it up there.

When it comes to docker, I think at least Mac would be close to Linux (at least from my experience in my previous job – there are some integration issues, but managable I think). Windows I have no idea to be honest, could be a nightmare. For me the benefits of docker seem to be: isolation from the rest of the machine, and that pretty much every selfhostable app has a docker compose file.

Thanks, I’ll check languagetool. stirling pdf already has a desktop client, although I don’t know if it offers the same functionality (but I would expect it).

Nice, thanks for the syncthing use case.