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.

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    If you self-host your own instance, make sure to disable image hosting / caching. I’ve had to DM a lot of people to inform them of “problematic” images hosted on their instance.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I think for now, I will just be a part of what is already here. Maybe later I may entertain the idea.

  • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active?

    I mean, you’re right here.

    Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey’s out there?

    If it’s your personal instance: altruism. You’re taking some burden off of the main Lemmy servers by hosting your own with your content. You’re saving them bandwidth, storage and CPU time.

    If it’s a public instance meant for others to use: you’re participating in decentralisation and keeping the Fediverse alive. Every new instance has their own mods, rules and policies. It’s like a little island connected to other islands to form a community.

    I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.

    Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you. Good luck, DM me if you have trouble.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I mean, you’re right here.

      Thank you I thought I was going insane. It’s not Reddit levels of activity, but I’d say this is pretty dang active. Stats on the right show almost 600 users a day, ~7k a month, almost 100k comments…

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’m not sure “Reddit levels of activity” is necessarily a good thing :)

        But yeah that takes some getting used to for sure. I would think this is one of the more popular communities here for kinda obvious reasons given the nature of Lemmy. I’ve only been here since the first great migration but I’ve already seen Lemmy in general grow tremendously.

        • rice@lemmy.orgEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Yea with that activity comes hosting cost and it has to come from somewhere because 99% of them wouldn’t run their own instance

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I gotta comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Well thanks. I feel fortunate to be alive. My first computer was an Altair. Then the Timex/Sinclair, the TI, then just about one of each until some semblance of base line was established and not 20 companies producing propriety devices. It’s been a wild ride. I’m also a mediocre musician of about 65 years and the technology still blows me away every time I sit down to my DAW and controllers.

      Sorry to have taken your ‘OldHead’ status from you. lol

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I see you are on Lemmy.world, keep in mind self hosting your Lemmy will bypass the heavy censorship going on on Lemmy.world in terms of defederation.

    For example another great community and very active is the pirate community on db0, which is banned on your current instance. And not the only one.