Yet another SELF-HOSTED community
Yet another SELF-HOSTED community
Self-hosted is a community for people who believe in taking things into their own hands. The only thing that I ask of members of this community is to be nice to one another. Please note the emphasis on this version of the community is independence, learning and communication. If you’re unsure of whe...
I would like to introduce a new self-hosted community
As it says in the sidebar
Self-hosted is a community for people who believe in taking things into their own hands. The only thing that I ask of members of this community is to be nice to one another. Please note the emphasis on this version of the community is independence, learning and communication. If you’re unsure of where a link leads, either click it or ask.
So if you're into that kinda thing, consider giving !selfhosted@libretechni.ca a subscription and then have a wonderful day. If not, have a wonderful day anyway.
Wait, why?
Are you saying that there is something wrong with all the communities you listed (to which I would also add !main@selfhosted.forum) ?
Are all the moderators against "believing into taking things into their own hands"?
It seems like yet-another community is just a manifestation of NIH syndrome. If you want to do it because you enjoy the exercise, fine. But then it makes little sense to also try to attract people that are already happy in other communities.
In the end, this seems like it does very little to help the ecosystem. Lemmy (and the Fediverse) in general is already struggling to keep people engaged, and this constant and unnecessary fragmentation makes everything worse.
I'd seriously ask you to reconsider this initiative. Let's strive to look for the best of things and keep united instead of sowing more division.
I added your one.
As for why. I just explained this recently actually. What I love about Lemmy is that there can be so many different flavours of communities that you can find the one that's a perfect fit for you.
I was a prolific poster in WORLD and loved it, I even made a post thanking everyone for helping there, but suddenly people decided they had a problem with posting updates and so I figured I'd find a better fit. Ramped up my activity on ML and then similarly people decided to take umbrage with the way links were posted, after a bit of kerfuffle, I ended up adding a line about what each service does to every release I posted.
Yesterday there were three releases that I notified the community about and today another three including a critical bug fix for something I posted yesterday.
As I went to clean out my inbox, I went to thank someone who notified me of a release and noticed I couldn't submit the response, when I investigated further, I saw my post was removed. Not just that post, all posts. I loaded up Lemmy in my browser, looked at the modlog and saw a moderator removed them citing I was posting random GitHub links. That's fine, as I said, different flavours, different fits. But I would've appreciated a heads up, especially as I feel I've done a lot to keep that community feeling active. Never mind though.
Luckily, when the kerfuffle occurred, I went looking for a host for a community whereby I wouldn't have to worry about people complaining about me doing something I found valuable when others did it. Amusingly, I looked at selfhosted.forum and they didn't have a selfhosted, so I continued to look and found libretechni.ca and ended up making the community myself.
I just want to be able to post when software updates come out and help whomever I can with the paltry knowledge I've acquired without offending or bothering anyone. It's not a slight on anyone or a criticism of anyone, just a desire to try and share the excitement, joy and fulfillment I get from self hosting.
If you think that posting about any reasonably important project is important, then fine. But then again, I'd reason that the people that share your belief would already be to the relevant RSS feeds, no? Maybe the whole thing that you are trying to do could be replaced with a "PSA" style post, where you link a OPML list of RSS feeds from the projects that are worth tracking?