Hey everyone, as I previously mentioned the rules here are up for debate, and I’d like to start with the problem that led us all here:

  1. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

Breaking it up:

Posts have to be centered around self-hosting

Kind of obvious for the community, but perfectly fine to note.

There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.

Without listing anything here, I think this is pointless and unhelpful. I’d also note that hardware is intrinsic to hosting your own services, and we are talking about people hosting at home, which makes “home computing” here rather confusing. We host these things for our home computing typically. The intention I think was “This is not your generic linux help desk or buildapc”, but that doesn’t come through very well.

If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

I like this not from a moderation perspective, but more of a post clarity perspective. Whats obviously related to selfhosting to the OP may not be obvious to people visiting that post.

Here’s what I propose as a revised rule 3:

Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Be prepared to explain to others why it’s related to self-hosting if asked.

Please discuss! Happy to have any additional input on this.

In the meantime, I’m striking out the middle of rule 3 until there is some consensus on wording.

Edit: Its/it’s typo

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    51 minutes ago

    As others have mentioned here, there is a lot of natural overlap with vps renting, hardware re-use, gerenal approaches to managing infrastructure, docker, and Linux in general. I don’t even mind networking questions here.

    When questions stray in that aren’t really that relevant, like beginner Linux questions, someone is generally nice enough to point to a more appropriate community.

    What I think wastes time in this community are the gatekeeping topics like “your vps isnt self-hosting”.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      When questions stray in that aren’t really that relevant, like beginner Linux questions, someone is generally nice enough to point to a more appropriate community.

      Exactly! These things are generally self-regulating, so once a more appropriate community is pointed to, its sensible to lock comments (but not delete - the question will likely come up again, and its good to have it searchable).