Dan Killam<p>I just realized <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> has generally been the factor pushing me to <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homeassistant</span></a> when Google Home and Smartthings were locking down too much functionality </p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Joplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Joplin</span></a> when I got tired of being pushed around by Evernote, Onenote, Google Keep</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/jellyfin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jellyfin</span></a> and <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/kodi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kodi</span></a> when it became clear that streaming was trying to make me pay more than cable TV</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/searxng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searxng</span></a> when I was getting tired of AI search results and just wanted a good metasearch solution</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/freshrss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freshrss</span></a> to follow news feeds after the collapse of twitter</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/syncthing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syncthing</span></a> when emailing stuff to myself and cross-device file-sharing became too tedious</p><p><a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/calibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>calibre</span></a>-web when Amazon killed my ability to download copies of my ebooks</p><p>Now <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/readeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readeck</span></a> to make up for the death of Pocket</p><p>Next I want to finally get <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nextcloud</span></a> going, with offsite backup, so I can get off MS Office and GDrive once and for all!</p><p>Proprietary services I still happily use because they treat me like an actual customer: Kobo, Todoist</p>