@ernie@tedium I don't think I've seen Cosmos before. I know there are some like https://yunohost.org/ or https://umbrel.com/ that are trying to do similar things, and things like Home Assistant's Green/Yellow paired up with their Addons gets us some of the way.
I've also considered what a "flatpak" of self hosting would be though the initial setup of Cosmo/YunoHost/Umbrel/etc is still probably more challenging than most would want to attempt 🤔
@kfdm@tedium I’m familiar with YunoHost. (Another one that may or may not be on your radar is CasaOS.) I think the solution might be that the hosting tools have an installer like Plex, and then maybe they give you the feeling of a closed ecosystem.
@ernie@tedium Aye, the first step is the hardest 😆
Perhaps the 'flatpak' of self hosting would be like a 'DockerDesktop' type app. Installing it would install and configure Docker (directly on Linux, or via a VM for Windows/Mac) and then ensure the management UI was running.
Though one catch is that a UI for installing apps is 'easy', but we should also make it easy for users to backup their data (I say this being fully aware that I'm not always good at backups myself and I'm a developer 😅)
@hydrian@tedium That general idea might work but it probably has to be installable on MacOS and Windows. Essentially a self-contained hostable app in a box that won’t scare off people running a Plex server.
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