cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1386745

Anytype has finally followed through on their promise and open sourced their repositories. Self hosting is now possible though there is no docker container available.

This is a major step forward for all PKMS and I wholeheartedly congratulate them.

btw Anytype is free, even their included sync service, which is the best of any offline-first style PKMS I have experienced. Anytype is top 3 PKMS for me, followed by Logseq and SiYuan. They’re in good company and now it’s only going to improve!

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Self hosting documentation

Contributor discussions

  • mea_rah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It looks interesting as an app, but in context of self-hosting there are couple of speed bumps:

    • The server side is quite complicated. (compared to Joplin for example) It’s multiple services and it also needs Mongo, Redis and S3. Makes sense for them to do it this way to be able to scale up, but for few users hosted locally it’s quite a lot of moving parts.
    • You need to compile client apps to self-host. This effectively kills this as an option on iOS.