selfh.st was a website that was included in my RSS feed for reading news about self hosting and such for a while now. I never felt it was that helpful for me since I usually add the release notes of the services I use individually on my feed. I would often read out of curiosity.

I also felt their feed was always very clunky to be honest, it was never formatted properly but at least there was content there. In the middle of the huge images there was at least a little bit of information to be seen.

9 months ago their feed broke (because they changed their domain or something like that) and since then, I noticed the website is kind of declining? I kind of hate the overuse of enshittification but there are no other words for me to define this. Many red flags were already ignored before by the way, including the usage of AI slop imagery and a change of interface for the worse, to include information about sponsors.

They started sending the feeds with: “This is a feature reserved to premium users” with a link to their website. Felt very icky.

I do NOT expect people that make content to keep doing it without support (we support a few independent news outlets, also donate every now and then to projects we use a lot), however the way they are trying to get said support is very… weird. Like trying to boost numbers, if that makes sense? If done different I would gladly give them a subscription each month, but this hit me in a weird way.

Anyway, I won’t be part of their audience anymore. Are there other websites which focus on self hosting have on your feed?