The title is really vague, so I’ll try to clarify my intentions here:

I am an ardent supporter of FOSS. It will be greatly beneficial for my life and especially my privacy to self-host such software. Yet, I cannot find much motivation to do so.

However, when it comes to hosting software for public use, I can usually give my utmost concentration and dedication.

This is not how I want my life to be. I want to be motivated for myself as well as for the community. And if that’s not possible, I need to trick my brain into bringing me into that kind of zone for myself.

What do I do? What would you do in this situation?

  • tomjuggler@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    It’s always nice to have some motivation from doing things for others. Depending on the service, you can always host for others AND for yourself. It’s 10x as much work but you do get positive feedback (sometimes…)

    • Findmysec@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Yeah but some things are best consumed privately, and a media server is probably one of them (because I’m not going to do any requesting pipelines like sonarr/radarr etc)