Comment on Revisiting Rule #3 Hey everyone, as I previously mentioned the rules here are
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As others have mentioned here, there is a lot of natural overlap with vps renting, hardware re-use, gerenal approaches to managing infrastructure, docker, and Linux on general. I don’t even mind networking questions here.
When questions stray in that aren’t really that relevant, like beginner Linux questions, someone is generally nice enough to point to a more appropriate community.
What I think wastes time in this community are the gatekeeping topics like “your vps isnt self-hosting”.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
Exactly! These things are generally self-regulating, so once a more appropriate community is pointed to, its sensible to lock comments (but not delete - the question will likely come up again, and its good to have it searchable).
lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
One problem can be, that the better fit community does not have enough active users, thus being unlikely to give a good answer. I think we should have a look at that before refering the user to that community.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
To me thats part of it being appropriate. In another comment I mentioned a few of the more popular hardware communities - which are 90+% product announcements, and there aren’t many others I’m aware of. The build a pc community on lemmy.ca has no activity, and the build a pc community on .world has a grand total of 5 subscribers, and less than 30 posts in a year.
Forcing fragmentation just would not make sense, I agree.