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?
homelab is a form of self-hosting and vice versa as far as I’m concerned. Ask away, I’ve never seen that rule being strictly enforced and I don’t think the lemmy community is honestly large enough to support such a rule. It was probably migrated over from Reddit where there were viable communities for all those things.