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.

  • @secret300
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    5814 days ago

    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.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      14 days ago

      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.

      • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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        614 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.

    • Anas
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      013 days ago

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

      • @secret300
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        113 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.