I thought this was an interesting post and discussion on selfhosted. Thoughts?
Some great points, but it’s nonsense to say r/selfhosted isnt about selfhosting. I’ve learned so much there.
I think it’s great there’s a lemmy community for selfhosted but honestly the subreddit often has more information and replies.
And it’ll stay that way until people use, and keep using, this space. So, to use an overused phrase, be the change you want to see :)
Seems like we get plenty of replies that have solid answers, we are just missing posts… So just post stuff! If the content is here, it’ll start to grow.
Reddit is dead to me and blocked in my router, so I’m good sharing knowledge and cool stuff here.
If i could do this without my wife noticing, I’d be golden.
Unfortunately, she took to lurking some reddit communities right as I was exiting
Set her up with a lemmy account…it’s better than random flowers she’ll love it!
Meh, I no longer participate but it still had a huge wealth of knowledge. Only time I end up on it is from a search engine.
Sad thing is that search engines have got so bad, and usually return so much garbage blog spam that searching directly on reddit is more likely to give useful results. I hope a similar amount of knowledge will build up on Lemmy over time.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, Reddits search function is notoriously terrible
Id much prefer people just posted on Lemmy.
I think federated networks are healthier and better in the long run. Also there should be more smaller instances so the load is not too heavy to bear for any one instance.
@Saiwal For instance specialized communities like #[1](https://selfhosted.forum/communities) should be made use of instead of having all the communities on a single instance. This would be more sustainable and cost effective for the admins too.
This (along with basically all instances with communick news behind them) is a classic example of scaling up prematurely.
When this community is brimming with so much content that users start to “miss” posts about [thing x] because there are so many posts about [thing y], then you make offshoot communities, not before.
@shnizmuffin I agree. I am not complaining, just saying what could be an ideal scenario. Someone on the reddit thread complained about their instance becoming too large too soon and they had to shut down, so was reflecting on that.
I like that idea, although I think we need some simpler guides as to what exactly one might he getting into if they’re setting up an instance that’s not just a domain name. (Costs, potential usage blowing up, legal issues with content, etc…)
Also, I really think there needs to be a smoother way to navigate between instances. I guess, so you’re still aware of “jumping nodes”, but also don’t feel locked in there. (Although maybe I’m just a newb still haha)
@MonkeMischief oh i agree. Setting up an instance is not easy. And choosing a place on the fediverse can be tricky based on how you decide to interact over here. For example I’m not on lemmy but I use my hubzilla instance to interact with the communities I am passionate about which I find is really cool.
And it does take some time to really understand how this allworks together but once you understand it’s fairly easy to use and navigate.
