Given you are already offering the product for free it would be cool to have a self hosted option.
Typically I'm not the one to suggest this on hobby projects being made into a product bc you gotta make money somehow to support this and I respect that to some appreciable degree.
I hear you. I actually am quite open to making Jottings self-host-able. I might want to slice the multi-tenant layer out before I do that, only because that is complicated and not needed for someone to host and manage multiple sites, and is the part that primarily makes this a product. I'll give it a think.
I also hear you about the making money part, and I largely agree.
Been using Jellyfin daily for over a year now with over 30TB of media. It's been wonderful. It's not perfect like any OSS project, but it's better than every alternative I tried when standing up my media pipeline last year.
Two minutes of interface management and Plex doesn’t show anything but my own media either. (I would prefer it if Plex didn’t advertise its streaming content at all of course, but I’ve paid for my lifetime pass so I’m not contributing revenue)
Typically I'm not the one to suggest this on hobby projects being made into a product bc you gotta make money somehow to support this and I respect that to some appreciable degree.