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.
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marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
kr0n@piefed.social 1 week 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
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 week ago
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 1 week 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.
And I must comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.
rice@lemmy.org 5 days ago
Yea with that activity comes hosting cost and it has to come from somewhere because 99% of them wouldn’t run their own instance