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I thought this was an interesting post and discussion on selfhosted. Thoughts?

Some great points, but it's nonsense to say r/selfhosted isnt about selfhosting. I've learned so much there.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I community dedicated and in love with the idea of self hosting their own software yet avoid a self hosted alternative to a hostile service...

I actually don't think anyone in the subreddit is actually self hosting anything and if they are the irony is heavier than actual iron.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

As more of an outside observer here:

When I was still using Reddit, it looked like most people in that community were just running personal home media servers using basic as fuck raspberry pi setups or just old hardware that could handle it, like maybe a modded Xbox or something.

Here on Lemmy, it looks more like you're all actual networking specialists hosting damn near everything from home automation to business-level server systems for your home business. You guys are serious; Reddit isn't. Respect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

At the end of the day, networking specialists are in the minority by a considerable degree

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I'm on both but got into the weeds thanks to reddit. The mods over there tried making an independent forum but it never got the momentum lemmy got.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I think someone even commented how was the donald selfies but not them lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think most people here are self hosting Lemmy instances

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah I'm not either that's not the point. The point is using an alternative that is open and can be self hosted.