Yeah I guess that might work. it’s just the effort part and the self selection issue.
I’ve got some scripts I put together for doing network analysis of yiutube. I’ll have to look into some of these programs and see if I could extend them into a personalized content recommendation system. Someday when I finish all my other projects (😂)
What I mean by discovery is the finding of new and interesting content. For example, via YouTube it does track my viewing and it gives me some novelty via playlists. There are also channels that find new music and aggregate it.
I’m always in the hunt for novelty in media and a concern ive had and have experienced with mine own Lemmy instance is that of discovery, or finding new content.
Basically a big part I like about digital music is that I find stuff I never would have known about. If I’m going self hosted, it seems like this would get very much more limited.
I’m considering taking this journey myself. thanks for the insight.
How do you deal with the issue of discovery?
I think this kind of handwringing shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works.
Everything you’ve ever pushed your eyeballs against on the internet was hosted somewhere. These days its pretty much all in the cloud.
All this team did was write a wrapper to automate the instance creation, which I just happily paid for, because even though I could have figured it out, it wasnt work several hours of my time to do so. And if I did, I still was going to use the same cloud providers this team is routing through.
I just paid to host an instance to do my part to support the fediverse. If you are from the elest team jbenguira hit me up or maybe I’ll hit your lemmy to get some help. Having some issues getting my domain to work and want to make sure I’m doing it right.
My NAS just arrived today. I’ll have ~42 TB of self hosted storage for 1k.
Google is charging me something ridiculous like, 300 a year for the same.