@hybridsarcasm@lemmy.world has not replied to me (or anyone according to his profile) after that last bit about making me and @ayyy@sh.itjust.works mods, so I’m going to go ahead and work on holding down the fort. Its a bit of a hectic weekend for me with activities for my kids, so you may see some post activity being restored or other such things in no particular order.

So who am I?

Well, I’m a specialist consultant by day, and an avid self-hoster. Off the top of my head, I host:

  • Jellyfin
  • An over-complicated *arr stack to suit my particular tastes of media management
  • Prometheus+Loki+Grafana for my monitoring stack
  • Home Assistant
  • Personal website
  • Immich
  • MagicMirror
  • ROMM for that fun emulation on the go
  • Kavita (mostly because I keep forgetting to change the url on my wife’s phone for the other OPDS server) & Calibre (the other OPDS)
  • Local AI models for testing purposes mostly
  • Endurain for my post-Strava life
  • Various stuff for utility for SSO, LDAP, databases, MQTT, so on and so forth

Predominantly running on Proxmox as LXCs, with some docker here and there. So pretty much the same as a lot of you, just another *selfhoster (edit: WHOOPS! I a whole word there, now fixed)

Moderation Style

Lets call it “light touch”. I’m pretty sure everyone here is more than capable of handling most things with the appropriate votes - we’ve seen this with the recent thread that resulted in this moderation change. In case you couldn’t also guess from my home instance, I’m a firm believer in people being able to regulate themselves, so as far as I’m concerned that means the rules themselves can be up for discussion as well. As this community is on lemmy.world, of course that means the TOS here must be respected.

There are people on both sides of the keyboards, so please be respectful of others.

The one thing that I just do not tolerate is bigotry.

And finally, feel free to send me a message to address any issues! So lets have some fun with self-hosting.

Edit: Added a direct link to the Lemmy.world TOS for clarity. This community is on Lemmy.world and subject to its terms, as managed by the admin team.

      • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        https://lemmy.world/post/47758551

        I’m just gonna link this post.

        If I had to paraphrase what happened, there was some (IMO polite) disagreement over the stringency of enforcing rule 3 and whether it was negatively impacting the community by removing posts that people worked hard to answer due to being more of a hardware-related topic, and then the previous mod abruptly made the people who offered the criticism moderators without any discussion on the matter with them first and then hasn’t been seen on Lemmy since.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Well thanks!

      Hopefully we’ll avoid wild events in posts going forward, and just have posts about wild events in our logs instead.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    That’s got to about the most straightforward thing I’ve heard on the internet in a very long while, and <clears throat nervously> and from a mod. No disrespect intended, at all. It’s quite respectable. You say ‘light touch’ and ‘people being able to regulate themselves’…have…you…met these people? I kid, but I’m sure that’s where the TOS comes in which is forthcoming or am I just being stupid again and overlooked it? I mean, I see rules

    Respectable stack as well. At any rate, good to meet you. Thank you for your clarity.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Sure have! Everyone can be quite opinionated, and I personally love it. Different opinions, even strong ones on both sides, can make for fantastic discussions on specific needs and preferences that I think make for great reads.

      As long as the discussion stays a discussion and doesn’t devolve into a slapfight or something. Which does make me want to suggest the disengage rule of the FAF here, but considering what I have seen of the modlog so far it hasn’t really been an issue anyway.

      The TOS I refer to is the Lemmy.world TOS which I have zero control over. The rules that I suggested are up for changes are the ones in the sidebar here, and the biggest on the docket is rule 3 which inspired the recent meta thread (and caused confusion about what was actually going on around here).

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Unrelated to the larger topic, but how do you find Endurain? I want to dump Strava, but last time I looked at self hosted Strava alternatives (maybe a year ago?), none of them really came close to parity in features.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      It still has some areas that are lacking tbh, but with the recent API restrictions… I can’t see myself going back to Strava at this point. I’d rather try and see what I can do to add features to endurain or use supplementary tools - honestly the biggest thing is around more complex analytics, which I was thinking I may just pull into grafana to do. Would make a great discussion post though!

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    Thank you! Looking forward to hearing from you!

    My only request/suggestion, is Rule 3. Rule 3 I think has been used way too often to justify removing posts seemingly arbitrarily. A blanket “No hardware” rule is restrictive when homelab and selfhosted are a venn diagram that are very close together. For example, you can’t talk about Unraid without also talking about what drive types you use. Or a post I’m thinking about posting, “What doorbell cameras do you prefer with HomeAssistant? and What NVR should I use?”. All selfhosted, all homelab, all interconnected… but I am afraid of posting it because of the iron fist.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      2·
      59 minutes ago

      By the way, not sure what your post was that got removed, if you’d like to let me know I can restore. It won’t get the same attention though since it would be a less recent post, so if its something that still would benefit from discussion, a new post might be better.

      I’ll be making a new post about rule 3 probably tomorrow, but especially considering the recent activity, that is not a rule thats going to be enforced the same way.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      Completely agree, especially on the hardware part. This is also why I mention self-regulation - and there was a recent post that demonstrated it - we are going to interact with posts that are related to self-hosting, and on ones that are questionable, people are going to question then up/downvote accordingly.

      I don’t personally see a need for the rule at all.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        4·
        3 hours ago

        As a mod myself on much smaller communities, that’s my view too. Even if there is something I personally dislike, it’s not my community, if it’s getting upvotes then obviously people are enjoying it. If I get reports I look into it, but it has to be a pretty blatent violation for me to step in. Why would I want to hurt engagement? There’s so few of us already here.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Precisely - and on the last point especially, it means that there needs to be some leeway. There aren’t so many active communities that you could say “obviously this is a question for the proxmox on tiny/mini/micro hardware support community!”, because something like that has 2 subscribers and no posts in a year.

          Its not an approach that leads to community, IMO.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Happy to help out if you want coverage; I’m in Eastern time.

    I think the existing moderation was pretty good, if a bit strict on what is or is not self hosting (e.g. I probably would have let that LUKS post slide). “Light touch” unless something is egregious is my method as well.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah I may need to reach out to Ruud, I can’t make my curbstickle_lw account a mod at the moment, but I agree on the LUKS post - I’m going to be restoring it soon tbh. But I also need to run out to pick up dinner in a few, so that may be a little later in the evening :)

      Edit: And agreed on the moderation overall, the only thing I really disagreed with is the strict application of rule 3.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        but I agree on the LUKS post

        How about we don’t and just say we did. That was embarrassing. However, I am happy to report it went smooth No runs, no drips, no errors. So I did learn something.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          It seems to be completely gone now anyway.

          I’m glad things went smoothly!

          So I did learn something.

          And that is exactly why I like keeping threads like that around - no embarrassment necessary IMO!

  • Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Also happy to help. I’ve modded on Reddit a few times and agree with light touch to avoid all the dramatic junk.