MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud
Curious to see this here, given that I&#x27;ve been trying to set up some of these &quot;decentralized services&quot; at my home servers and figuring out if it is really possible to replace the common mainstream services.<p>So far, I installed my own Matrix server (synapse), my own XMPP (ejabberd), yesterday I got semi-happy with my mastodon setup, and now I was just finishing some tests with ownCloud to see if I could replace Dropbox.<p>MediaGoblin is on my list of services to setup. I ran a basic deployment and checked some other instances of it before, but I didn&#x27;t put it higher on my priority list because to me it looks like it focus too much on being a &quot;community-driven website&quot; instead of providing a solid service as a media-hosting&#x2F;publishing&#x2F;catalog system.<p>To me it looks like they are shooting for the wrong level of &quot;decentralization granularity&quot;. Each instance of these services are aiming for a &quot;community&quot;, and think that the people use the mainstream tools because they don&#x27;t want to&#x2F;won&#x27;t manage the server.<p>The point they seem to miss is that this only creates another type of top-down organization. It would be MUCH easier for them to focus on a &quot;single-user&quot; system, and start from the point that the communication will work when the applications talk with each other.<p>To me this is why Diaspora failed, and Wordpress is still such a big part of the internet.<p>Another thing I noticed: the projects that really focused on separating client from server produced much better results in terms of UI&#x2F;UX. With Matrix, I just had to setup the server, and then I could have the riot app just point to my instance. If by any chance a better client comes around, my instance would be untouched.