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Are the homelab communities dead? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by myfavouritename@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] myfavouritename@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I kind of miss the message board era of the internet. Those niche communities could be really useful.

I'm still using public trackers. Maybe after I get my network setup I'll invest some time into finding a good private tracker or two to join.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Private trackers are like the Matrix's "zion". When civilization collapses into a dystopian surveillance capitalism hellscape and the AIs and fascist governments take over the net, the last free humans will be hiding in private tracker communities, sharing freely and building a resistance. Will we have mechs with gatling guns? I don't know, all I can say is I hope so because it looks like we're going to need it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

The problem is people don't want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can't follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn't what we want.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

You're using public trackers, so you're probably not in the habit of being a seeder. With private trackers, you HAVE to seed. Deleting a torrent from your client once it's finished is most certainly a habit you will have to break once you finally do get into some private trackers.