So I am for the most part a lurker and a hobbyist. I've always been a bit of a techie, but over time decided I wanted to be more anti-consumption and such.
I started out with by doing my own calendar. I have a desktop that has my nextcloud and use it to sync my gnome calendar with fossify (with davx5). This was rather straight forward and gave me a nice confidence boost. This is mostly done on my local network, tho I am thinking of reading more into tailscale and getting a domain. The next move I did was to bring my todo list over. This was a bit tricky as many apps don't have a setting to support repeat todos and crossing one off might just remove the item entirely and kill the resets that another app set up. At one point I found the app super productivity. This app is basically perfect. Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert. There is an option to have the app sync with a local file. I thought I could be clever and just have nextcloud do the syncing and let the apps think they are working only off the local on their respective device. Alas there was a snag here. For some reason nextcloud will write the files with read only permission on the laptop, so I cannot add or cross off items. Then I remembered using some apps around a decade ago that worked off a todo.txt file. I figured maybe I could find some mobile and desktop apps and recycle the idea of letting nextcloud manage two way sync of a file and letting apps interact with it as if it were local. It seems like I have some winners here with sleek on desktop and ntodo.txt on mobile.
Just my humble story of selfhosting so I don't feel like a poser when listening to podcasts or lurking.
Its unpopular, but its actionable and helps give space to further grow our progressive movement.
Tankies disagree, but don't put forth a real adgenda. Such unserious group.