I’ve been into computers since around the mid 70s. First one was an Altair 8000. I have been selfhosting for years now, self taught and helped along of course by the selfhosting communities.
Not to speak bad of the dead, but I’ve really had it up to my back teeth with their bullshit. So I am in search of some self hosting brethren to chum around with. I figured I’d give Lemmy a try. It’s kind of confusing, but hopefully I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.
I’ve seen a few selfhost forum around the fediverse but they all seem to have been abandoned with threads a year or more old, and no movement. So my question, is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active? Perhaps one of you good souls could point me in the right direction.
Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey’s out there? What benefit would that be? From what I understand, hosting your own instance turns out to just be your own personal blog.
I mean, I understand the fediverse, and decentralization, I’m just having a bit of difficulty getting in with the right, active, group.
TIA
ETA: Thank you for the very warm welcome. Hopefully I will be turtley enough for the turtle club.
Congrats, you’ve arrived at the right place!
Source: I subscribed to a ton of Lemmy communities to quit Reddit, and the selfhosting ones are so active they routinely push other communities down below the fold unless I sort by new.
btw if you haven’t got into Proxmox yet, have a look at it.
I can definitely sing the praises of Proxmox. One of the three businesses I run from home uses a piece of software called BlueBeam. Feature for feature, I’ve not been able to find an opensource alternative. So I spin up a Windows VM with Proxmox for BlueBeam. I also run quite a few of the helper scripts, tho I am really keeping an eye on that. There seems to be diverging opinions among the devs on how things should operate. I also run a couple of small AI projects on Proxmox, so yea…it gets a work out. For what Proxmox can do, I was honestly surprised that the community edition was free. That’s an awesome piece of software.