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?
there are a large bunch spending time on Discord as well
Found a couple of them on SimpleX chat also, those you can find yourself in SimpleX directory: Linux, Selfhosting and homelab (I think)
Then there are some forums like Proxmox, Nextcloud and idk others, however these are scattered
Disgusting. Please remove your discord links. Discord is a surveillance platform that works with ICE.
I hadn’t considered checking out the communities for some of the widely used homelab applications like Proxmox. That’s a great idea, thanks.