This is why I'm building Timelinize [1]. It's a follow-up to my open source Timeliner project [2], which has the potential to download all your digital life onto your own computer locally, and projects it all onto a single timeline, across all data sources (text messages, social media sites, photos, location history, and more).
It's a little different from "self hosting" but it does have a similar effect of bringing all your data home and putting it in your control. We have to start somewhere, might as well start with bringing in all the data we've put out there. (It's not a replacement for self-hosted media servers, for example.)
The backend and underlying processing engine is all functional and working very well; now I'm just getting the UI put together, so I hope to have something to share later this year.
[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (website coming eventually)
[2]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
It's a little different from "self hosting" but it does have a similar effect of bringing all your data home and putting it in your control. We have to start somewhere, might as well start with bringing in all the data we've put out there. (It's not a replacement for self-hosted media servers, for example.)
The backend and underlying processing engine is all functional and working very well; now I'm just getting the UI put together, so I hope to have something to share later this year.
[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (website coming eventually)
[2]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner