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I've been selfhosting my video / photo / book collections for a while now and also running other services like personal bugeting, piehole DNS, and stuff like that.

Lately I've been working on the hardware side of my home network. I'm looking for some advice and normally I'd turn to one of the homelab communities. But the three communities I found hadn't had much or any activity in the past 6 months.

I considered asking a question here related to my switch and my wifi access point. I bet there are lots of clever folks in this community. But before hitting submit I remembered to check the community rules in the side bar and noticed rule #3:

Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.

Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware? Anyone have some recommendations for neighbouring communities they find useful?

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Might be wrong, not a mod. My interpretation is if youre discussing hardware in the context of self hosting itd be ok? But general hardware posts (like news, new products) arent appropriate

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

That's my understanding too, and that way it ends up over there rather than here:

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

Dude is going to make his second post and get yanked. LOL