Just wanted to chime in and give a +1 to Anytype. While I haven’t self-hosted the backup node and I can’t help you with that just yet, the fact that a free, P2P decentralized, end-to-end encrypted and source-available notes app like Anytype even exists is awesome!

I’d be curious to see if you manage to get the backup node up and running 👀

I may or may not have been in you exact situation for a while :)

If it’s not too much of a hassle, let us know what you end up doing!

My fellow self-hosting noob, I gotchu!

Here are three solutions that are easy as pie:

1. Keep using Syncthing, but add additional devices to that folder to ensure one is always online and ready to receive and sync.
   • Pro: You can use an old laptop, a PC at home, your parent’s phone and so on. It’s like your own torrent network, as long as one peer is online it will always be synced.
   • Con: Your notes will be on those devices too. But in my personal experience Joplin notes don’t take much space and as for privacy, you can always E2EE them.

2. Use a different sync method that uses an always-on server for guaranteed sync.
   • I used Nextcloud for half a year and it worked flawlessly. I used the free 8GB hosting that tab.digital offers. Maybe give them a try again?
   • Alternatively, for an even faster experience (almost “Joplin server” levels of speed), use the S3 sync method in combination with Storj.io. They give you 25GB of free, decentralized, open-source, E2EE storage. You can DM me you need help setting up the S3 “bridge” with Joplin but it’s fairly easy.
   • You could also use OneDrive or Dropbox and encrypt your notes end-to-end first, but let’s assume you want to try to move away from closed-source services, not the opposite. Although the thought of making them pay the electricity bills without giving them your data can be quite amusing :P

3. Use Elfhosted.
   • It’s a newcomer in the “managed self-hosting” space that specializes in installing and setting-up all kinds of open-source software on a server for you. For some it’s not really self-hosting since you don’t have root access to the server, but at least it’s not “Google Drive” levels of control and we’re trying to get away from that. The guys at Elfhosted give you 10$ for free (no payment method required) to use on all of their offerings and as luck would have it, they also offer a Joplin server instance. The Joplin server instance costs 0.05$ a day, meaning that with those initial 10$ you could try it out for 6 months for free. As far as I can tell, at that price it can’t be beaten, not even by a VPS. I used it two weeks ago and had no issues. You even get cool features like note sharing, multiple users and note collaboration. Or, always with Elfhosted, you could just use a Syncthing instance that’s always-on, although they price that at 0.10$ a day.

P.s. There’s a Joplin community on Lemmy too, at [email protected]. Happy syncing!

Edit: Hell, here’s a fourth solution: Just use something like the FOSS app Round Sync and set it up so that it backs up your local Syncthing folder to a cloud of your choice (like those mentioned above) every 24h, or 2h, or even every 15 minutes. That way, once you come home and power on your laptop, your phone will automatically sync all your notes via Syncthing, but in the event that you lose your phone, you will have a “checkpoint” as recent as you want it to be. This way, you don’t have to change your current setup and at the same time you’re prepared in case something bad does happen. And in my case seeing that “Joplin Notes: Backup Completed” notification every 24h is something beautiful.

Yes it does work with 3rd party add-ons too!

Stremio web > log-in with your account > all your extensions should automagically be installed in your Stremio web. Then open the content you like and share the link in the address bar.

It’s the same on the recipient’s side: They will be able to see the stream you shared, but since they’re guests at first they won’t have any additional add-on installed apart from the opensubtitles add-on that is preinstalled on every account. If you want them to have a specific add-on on top of the stream, they will have to install it on their end first (no account required), then press on your link. Or they can just create an account, install the add-ons once and they’ll always have them ready for when you send them the link. Or you just give them your account and they’ll have all your same add-ons instantly. If you need help troubleshooting something, you can DM me.

P.s. I’m sure you could set-up a native Stremio server, give your friends access through a VPN, share your Plex or other solutions. But you asked for a way to share your Stremio content through a link and this is the fastest way possible.

The difference might be that Stremio-web works :P

Jokes aside, I sadly can’t help you on the technical side, all I know is that Stremio web works, no setup required. I went to Stremio-web, logged-in, chose my favourite public domain 1963 movie “Terror”, pressed play and copied the link from the address bar to my clipboard. I then shared that link to three different friends that did not have Stremio and they were all able to watch it, independently. I’d share the link here, but it contains my RD API token, so I’d rather not…

Peario works in a similar fashion, the only difference being that it would coordinate the three streams to keep them continuously synced up.

If I remember correctly they added this feature right around the time they announced Stremio Web (basically their web interface/web-app).

The web-app was mainly intended for devices that cannot download the fully fledged app (coughIOS…cough). I think this “remote HTTPS connection” is related to that: You basically have the fully fledged Stremio app on one device, the limited web-app on another device, and use this remote server setting to give the web-app all the missing features as long as you have the fully fledged Stremio app running on one device. Never got it to work though.

Maybe this helps:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/xct6ad/comment/iufrhzq/

If you want to “share” you stream to friends, you could also look into the Peario add-on. They don’t need to have Stremio installed, share the Peario link, press ready and you’re done. Didn’t manage to get subtitles working though.

Edit: correction about Peario.

If you’re talking about the FOSS app, it’s just a nice UI for your RealDebrid web-interface. It can:

• tell you how many days you have in your RD subscription & your RD points
• list the RD+ streams you’ve clicked on/watched so far
• stream your RD files, share em, download, all that.
• download from link/magnet using RD servers
• search through popular indexers (which RD can’t do, but Torrentio does it) and optionally add them to you RD library

But as far as I can tell, it’s nothing you can’t already do with the RealDebrid webpage & the stremio interface with Torrentio. Unchained looks nice though.

Edit: clarification.