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Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I'm in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it's a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they're still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that's just ONE service...

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You could use an llm with an mcp to the local filesystem and hope it can do it for you

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I just moved 20k bookmarks from Pocket to Readeck, and can sympathize lol. A lot of the links are dead. I found a cleanup script I'm going to run but it's still a huge curation challenge

[–] ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't move shit haha. Dumped OneDrive onto the Nas and mounted it for next cloud, I didn't even clean out the photos, which I copied into immich. I did move some ebooks, but that was very few things that I have

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

2000 Websites? WTF why?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't you use a script for that? There is a method to bulk import into linkding from Firefox and a REST API for linkding that allows you to remove all expired links.

[–] themakara@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes and no. A lot of sorting and optimizing processes can be done via scripts. For example, I had chatgpt generate one that finds audio streams in videos that are not in the language I need. Manual verification and then let another script remove the remaining lists streams that I don't need.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I don't bother sorting and organizing old files/bookmarks/whatever. Automatic tagging and full-text search solve that need. I try to keep recent stuff organized nicely though.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

There are web extension that check for bookmakers that responds with 404 and automatically deletes them.

[–] noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Idk. My folders are always decently organized since I've been nutty about since I was a kid, but the specific file structures different services can demand is a headache. This is why I prefer more simplistic services without a database, but there's always trade-offs to be had with both options.

I'm a bit split on it, but I do agree that it can be annoying and when you mess up, services and links you've sent to other people don't work and it can be quite agonizing. It'll probably get better for me as time goes on, but man it can bite at times.

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