Looking back I think that Google Reader going away was probably my first motivation to host services myself as opposed to just storing files on my network.

I had a little Synology at the time that I was just using as a NAS but when Google Reader when away I fired up FreshRSS I believe and started doing it myself.

I don't actually run an RSS reader server now and I suspect they aren't as popular as they were so maybe Google actually was onto something shuttering it HOWEVER we won't give them bonus points for that, just points for getting me into self hosting 😂