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[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

Ha. Me too! It wasn't until I saw the bit about "his new album" that I realized something was wrong. But it took a while. I first assumed that there was a typo that cut out the artist's name.

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Oh that's a good call! I'll take a look. Thanks.

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I hadn't considered checking out the communities for some of the widely used homelab applications like Proxmox. That's a great idea, thanks.

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I kind of miss the message board era of the internet. Those niche communities could be really useful.

I'm still using public trackers. Maybe after I get my network setup I'll invest some time into finding a good private tracker or two to join.

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

YouTube has been useful. Mostly as a way to filter out unreliable info. I've had best luck with creators who have actually written out a guide and are then making a video companion for it. Anyone who goes through the trouble to do both tends to be serious about what they are talking about.

But it's not a great way to ask questions and get answers. Hmmm, I say that, but to be honest I haven't checked the comments on those videos. Maybe it is a good way to have a dialogue and I just haven't seen it

[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I agree with you there. It seems like communities need a certain mass to feel right and above or below that it's time to split or consolidate.

I can imagine the mods making a rule like #3 to help avoid taking traffic from the hardware-specific communities.

 

I've been selfhosting my video / photo / book collections for a while now and also running other services like personal bugeting, piehole DNS, and stuff like that.

Lately I've been working on the hardware side of my home network. I'm looking for some advice and normally I'd turn to one of the homelab communities. But the three communities I found hadn't had much or any activity in the past 6 months.

I considered asking a question here related to my switch and my wifi access point. I bet there are lots of clever folks in this community. But before hitting submit I remembered to check the community rules in the side bar and noticed rule #3:

Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.

Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware? Anyone have some recommendations for neighbouring communities they find useful?