This looks great actually. Thank you!

This looks really, really, great. Thank you!

I did have a look at this, right on their front page it says “focal board is now mattermost boards” or something, this one in particular really does look like part of a larger ecosystem. Even the github repo is being retired as it’s being merged into mattermost server or something.

Weird take.

So adapt to some specific one

I guess I’m asking for recommendations as to which will be the easiest to adapt to.

This. You can either have key-per-device or key-per-person. I don’t really share access with anyone so key-per-person (just 1 for me) is the way.

If I did have multiple keys, they would be kept in the same place, so anyone getting access to one would get access to all of them anyway.

Sorry, where?

I don’t really understand. I’m not talking about creating a “foss” subreddit / sublemmy / community.

Anything self hosted is by it’s very nature free open source software (foss). This also applies to homeserver & homelab. Admittedly datahoarder is to a lesser extent but there’s still a very large cross over.

Therefore foss seemed like a good umbrella term, as a way to group the majority of these communities. So you create a foss instance which would be the ideal place to host selfhosted, homeserver, homelab, and datahorder subreddits / sublemmys / communities.

If I was looking at a list of instances, and saw a FOSS one, that’s where I’d expect to find these communities.

That said, I’m open to being convinced that there’s a better way to categorise these things ? What would you use as the umbrella term?

This.

Importing threads into this sub doesn’t feel like the right move to me.

You can still search reddit for solutions.

I don’t see any benefit to new users seeing content here which was originally from reddit.

I appreciate I’m likely preaching to the choir here

Yeah but it amazes me how many people just don’t get it. People on reddit looking for an alternative… “let’s go to lemmy”, “nah there’s lefty weirdos”, “ok let’s go to <closed source reddit clone>”, “ok this is gonna work out great!”

Well yeah but in this case, won’t reddit just replace the mods ?

That sounds like the right move if you’re happy to do it.

I would be happy be a mod at least in the short term, but willing to hand over to someone else later on if someone appropriate emerges.

Also @casey@lemmy.wiuf.net are you still interested ?

I haven’t used kbin, but it looks like it works with the activitypub protocol and can therefore interact with lemmy instances anyway ? That being the case lemmy still feels like the right choice for the instance.

Well yes, absolutely.

That’s what I said in the post.

I think 3 admins is a good number. Fosstodon is a good example of how this can work.

Thing is, at least 1 of them needs some experience with running a site with many users.

You mean a physical server like from ovh or hetzner? They have 64gb RAM & 500gb or so for ~$60USD a month. I’d be happy to contribute several months costs to get started, and I’m confident we could raise ongoing costs from the community in the future.

I’m the same regarding time. Too much responsibility to go it alone.

Yep, this is what I said in the post more or less. Cover FOSS, not just selfhosted.

Everyone can host their own instances but you still need a central instance to host the community.

I did look at this. The name is an abbreviation of solar punk I think? This community is focused on something to do with renewable resources & nature or something?

Not sure if it’s a great fit for us.

Yeah but “free media heck yeah” might not be the right vibe.

Yeah that’s what I said in the post. FOSS instead of just selfhosted.

Edit: sorry I think I misunderstood you. You mean just get an additional mod added to this sub? I that’s a possibility I guess.

Yeah you’d want to target FOSS in general instead of just selfhosting.

The concern with waiting is that lemmy.ml becomes unstable.