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I've been into computers since around the mid 70s. First one was an Altair 8000. I have been selfhosting for years now, self taught and helped along of course by the selfhosting communities.

Not to speak bad of the dead, but I've really had it up to my back teeth with their bullshit. So I am in search of some self hosting brethren to chum around with. I figured I'd give Lemmy a try. It's kind of confusing, but hopefully I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.

I've seen a few selfhost forum around the fediverse but they all seem to have been abandoned with threads a year or more old, and no movement. So my question, is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active? Perhaps one of you good souls could point me in the right direction.

Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey's out there? What benefit would that be? From what I understand, hosting your own instance turns out to just be your own personal blog.

I mean, I understand the fediverse, and decentralization, I'm just having a bit of difficulty getting in with the right, active, group.

TIA

ETA: Thank you for the very warm welcome. Hopefully I will be turtley enough for the turtle club.

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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active?

I mean, you're right here.

Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey's out there?

If it's your personal instance: altruism. You're taking some burden off of the main Lemmy servers by hosting your own with your content. You're saving them bandwidth, storage and CPU time.

If it's a public instance meant for others to use: you're participating in decentralisation and keeping the Fediverse alive. Every new instance has their own mods, rules and policies. It's like a little island connected to other islands to form a community.

I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.

Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you. Good luck, DM me if you have trouble.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you’re right here.

Thank you I thought I was going insane. It's not Reddit levels of activity, but I'd say this is pretty dang active. Stats on the right show almost 600 users a day, ~7k a month, almost 100k comments...

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not sure "Reddit levels of activity" is necessarily a good thing :)

But yeah that takes some getting used to for sure. I would think this is one of the more popular communities here for kinda obvious reasons given the nature of Lemmy. I've only been here since the first great migration but I've already seen Lemmy in general grow tremendously.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you

I love technology man. I always have since days of reading old Popular Mechanics and Popular Science mags. Here's some of what I self host.

[–] kr0n@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

"I mean, you're right here."

To be honest. I miss a lot to find here more new interesting threads every day :(

But well, I hope we can grow as community and find here all that we want