Probably depends. There are some services which I know are rock solid and have never failed me when auto-updating in 2+ years now.

However you are right that it can cause issues. I forgot to mention monitoring totally. My bad. A service like uptime kuma is really worth having for that reason. For a few services that really saved me a few times tbh. I set it up to broadcast status changes to a telegram channel and a special mail inbox. But it can seemingly use any and all services under the sun.

If you only have a handful of services, manual updating is good for learning and can prevent problems by seeing them immediately. However once you have so many services that you can’t possibly update them all or have the motivation to, it’s better to let them auto-update and have a service like uptime kuma notifiy you if something goes wrong imo.

As with all things in the world, it’s matter of striking the right balance of tradeoffs.

Seems people are already making great recommentations.

Personally I also use docker-compose, a WireGuard VPN and an Nginx-Server to proxy/ssl-terminate all my services to my VPN or the Internet.

Just host whatever you like/need. Something like Nextcloud is probably a solid start.

Btw, I have not seen it mentioned here, but awesome-Lists are a thing on github where people collect various gems for certain categories. Here is the one for self-hosting which I have used extensively and really like: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Also, when you start hosting more than 2-3 services, keeping them up-to-date might become a hassle which you can forget. For docker-based hosting I’d recommend you setup watchtower, which can keep your servives up-to-date for you.

I have personally been very happy with FreshRSS. Nowadays I use Nextcloud News (just a Nextcloud) app for it. So if you already have Nextcloud you don’t even need to selfhost something extra.

They both have WebApps. FreshRSS has a few themes to fit your taste and Nextcloud News will obviously follow your Nextcloud theming.

As far as apps go, FreshRSS has (probably) more than Nextcloud News. I personally like Feeder (only in PlayStore but worth it imo). For Nextcloud there is an App with the same name. Also good imo, but FreshRSS/Feeder has more customization options.

EDIT: Here is a nice list of a lot of Feed Readers: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#feed-readers

I should have guessed this would be a very unpopular opinion. Still think this is true.

Never used Instagram and barely ever FB. Never used twitter much anyway and a breed of Twitter and Meta seems like something I would never want anyway.

It seems people get some ego boost in saying: “We will not accept Threads in the fediverse”. But since they have not even attempted yet and have such a massive success, because they’ll probably dark pattern Instagram users into becoming threads users, they never need to consider using it anyway.

Odd. I can click the relative link in Connect but it errors with “Could not find a user with that id” and gives me a blank/nulled view. The search in conncect is also pretty broke imo and while I can find kbin.social things, the rust one doesn’t even show up for a pretty explicit search.

Not an instance issue at least. Opening over the website and subbing from there worked. Lemmy apps seem to still have a long way to go.

Edit: Btw, I read some post about using lemmy and that relative link is the way to go.