I hate how often Discord is mentioned as a viable alternative, how that is even remotely close to a link-aggregator fora is beyond me.
And equally important: another proprietary service that has a single point of failure which is large enough that governments will know about it and target it if they want to silence dissent. Federation or completely standalone is the only way to go imo.
It is kinda like r/selfhosted that stays on reddit even though it is turning to shit when the communities are about being able to manage a server and a shit ton of atorage
At the last exodus, some created https://selfhosted.forum/, but it’s pretty dead. You are right. It is tragically comical.
[email protected] is the most active community
There’s dozens of us!
Dozens, I say!
Its really funny because lemmy is one of the most rewarding things to selfhost
I am waiting for a better server before trying it, but I think I will probably keep this one
FWIW, it doesn’t need much. I’ve been running since June 2023 on a VM with 12 gigs of ram, like three cores, and a 1tb ssd (previously I was hosting the DB on my unraid server, but the performance was absolutely horrendous). When i started it i had less RAM, i think as time as gone on its started requiring a bit more (maybe now because of the db migration)
Thanks for the input. The thing is for now I only have one NAS with a low power CPU from skylake era, 8Go of ddr3 and a Linux setup I want to always redo. I will look out for mini PC or stuff like this for my server
Makes sense, yeah it definitely takes more system resources vs storage for a personal server. I host for myself and some friends, so it’s really just thumbnails that take up space.
For reference, I’m hosting on an r220 w/ a proxmox VM allocated as above. I think you could probably get away with less, but not too sure. Your idea with the mini PC would probably work, or you could get a cheap dell Optiplex on eBay and see if it runs well
Some are luckily mentioning Lemmy, but so many is talking about Discord haha
The IT related self-reliance communities on reddit should make their own instance. Data hoarder, self hosted, privacy, piracy, etc. The only unfortunate thing is the entire internet is run on advertising so it’s challenging to fund instances. Normalize paying for services you use.
Why does that door say pirate? Do you think a pirate lives there?
Thats what happened on dbzer0 iirc. Former reddit mod went lemmy admin. Correct me if I got that wrong.
But in any case, it is what I did as well. ;)
Huh… Blocked. Reddit’s getting snitty. They’re feeling threatened.
It’s been like that for a while
I wonder if linking to rxddit.com would fix it. Does that site even work still?
It’s unfortunate that the active c/datahoarder is on lemmy.ml, because it always derails the conversation into the tankie question. But it’s honestly on brand for there to be multiple c/datahoarder communities on Lemmy. You know, for backup and redundancy purposes 😏
Shout out to @[email protected] for getting some activity going on [email protected].
If we were to start fresh, I feel like [email protected] would be the most appropriate.
+1
@[email protected] Thoughts on hosting a datahoarder community on your instance?
The moderator of [email protected] (@[email protected], likely u/-Archivist) hasn’t been active in two years. Would the admins be open to appointing a new moderator or redirecting to a community on another instance? Tagging admin @[email protected].
The moderator of [email protected] (@[email protected]) is active. Thoughts on moving the community to dbzer0?
Tagging recent posters in the above communities for their thoughts: @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected].
Thoughts on moving the community to dbzero? I think moving away from .ml might be a better experience for new users, and moving away from .world (largest instance, still on 19.3) would strengthen the fediverse as a whole.
I think the idea to move away from .ml is a fantastic idea, but going to dbzer0 might be swinging too far the other way, I may be wrong on this point but they seem to have a love of anarchy. I propose moving to an instance that does not bring forth a massive ideology push, in this case I think lemm.ee is good place to restart this community, but that is just my two cents.
that does not bring forth a massive ideology push
I read the https://wiki.dbzer0.com/the-anarchist-code-of-conduct/ before joining, seems pretty reasonable to me.
[email protected] is hosted there too, and has been quite good at keeping some power tripping mods in check
That’s a fair point, I also didn’t take a look a deep look at the code of conduct or there de-federation list. I do know that lemm.ee has a strong sense of not de-federating from other instances.
Little late, but better late than never lmao
I agree that moving it away from .ml is a good idea, keeping it off .world is a good idea too because .world is getting a little big for its britches lmao
Though I don’t think DB0 is all that bad, they also host c/piracy, which while not exclusive to each other do complement each other IMHO
Though .ee is fine too ig, I would also suggest Lemmy.sdf.org, but I have noticed growing concern that it might be abandoned
Though .ee is fine too ig, I would also suggest Lemmy.sdf.org, but I have noticed growing concern that it might be abandoned
Yeah it’s a bit of a weird show there at the moment
So long as you’re cool with our instance rules, go for it.
Well done
We use [email protected] to assign new moderators. But redirecting the community to a different instance sounds wrong, because it is by far the biggest datahoarder community with 7k subscribers (compared to 360 on .world).
I’ve moved communities off Lemmy.world several times to other instances, while the LW version had a higher number of subscribers. Subscribers can come from the 2023 June exodus, and most of those accounts might not be used now. The .ml community has 119 users per week, which isn’t that high.
