Why are there so few successful open-source communication platforms? It feels like messaging and community platforms are still dominated by closed-source products even though they're such an important part of how people communicate. Maybe I'm overlooking something but I've always wondered why we haven't seen more successful open-source alternatives. Is it mostly a technical challenge or is getting people to switch …

Channel
r/SelfHosted
@r_SelfHosted
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
946subscribers
+13 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001359901565 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_SelfHosted |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 21 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 21 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_SelfHosted |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug 2026, 01:48 | 946 | +3 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:13 | 943 | +10 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 16:35 | 933 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 16:18 | 933 | first reading |
Engagement
12 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 2.77%
- avg views ÷ 946 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 26.2
- 12 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 3.45%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 12
- of 12 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 1 of 12 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 6 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 12 (6 August 2026 – 6 August 2026) |
| Views total | 314 |
| Reactions total | 1 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 6 Aug 2026, 16:35 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Reaction mix
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 12 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 12 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
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Release TaskView 1.51.0 https://redd.it/1vh4cvu @r_SelfHosted
Is this hardware enough for a decent home server? https://redd.it/1vgzavu @r_SelfHosted
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JellyBox Carplay beta test(Jellyfin music client) https://redd.it/1vgz3cb @r_SelfHosted
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I built OpenJornada: a self-hosted work-time clock for Spanish/EU labor-law compliance (AGPL-3.0, Docker) Disclosure: I'm the developer. In Spain, since RD-Ley 8/2019 every company must keep a daily, tamper-proof record of employees' working hours (clock in/out), keep it for 4 years, and make it available to the Labor Inspection. Most open-source time trackers (Kimai, etc.) don't cover that legal side natively, and…
Does anyone actually test their restores? Been self hosting for about a year now. Immich and Nextcloud on a VPS, plus a Postgress instance for a side project. Backups have been running on a cron for months, logs said "Completed", so i filed the whole thing under solved and stopped thinking about it. Last week i needed to pull something back and realised i had no idea if any of it would actually restore. It worked ou…
*Arr searching for multi releases ? Hello Everyone. hope you're good ! I'm here looking for help, because i'm unable to understand how multiple language are handled through Arr apps. I have sonarr and radarr running + bazarr working correctly for my own usage. I'm now allowing plex to friends who want to watch content with french audio track. On my side i always watch content in original language with subtitles s…
Please stop rewriting the wheel https://redd.it/1vgptcw @r_SelfHosted
"Find My" alternative with tag support? I'm looking for something which either may not exist, or that may involve quite a bit of pain and suffering to cobble together... I'd like to stand up a self-hosted service that authenticated phones can periodically check into with their current GPS location. That much is easy -- I'm familiar already with the existence of a few different projects, such as OwnTracks. However,…
Showing the 12 most recent of 12 posts we hold for @r_SelfHosted. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@linuxgram · 72,792
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 19 August 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 21 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“r/SelfHosted” (@r_SelfHosted), 946 subscribers as measured 21 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/r_SelfHosted.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.