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I saw the other thread and decided not to comment because there the conversation was looking pretty contentious, and I didn’t want to put a target on my back, but as somebody who almost exclusively posts about my project on Lemmy, I thought that this might be a good opportunity to explain myself.

Due to my project being FOSS, I’m thankful that this 10% rule doesn’t apply to me right now because I really don’t think I could provide anything useful by spouting my opinions. I do look at questions to see if there’s anything I can answer but the community is already great at that and most have more experience and knowledge of hosting infrastructure etc. I don’t feel that I have a great deal of insight into what makes for a good self hosting setup, but I have a passion for writing open source software that can be self hosted, and this is the way that I feel I can contribute something meaningful.

I feel that when I post about my project, I am contributing. I’m telling you that it exists, it’s free and you’re welcome to try or leave it. I do try to keep it relevant so as not to hit anyone over the head with it, and I’ve put the detailed posts into their own community. Nobody is going to find out that some of these self hosted applications exist if they aren’t told about them.

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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I didn’t know about your project, it looks cool! I think you could share it outside of your community some more, maybe you can crosspost them to !fediverse@lemmy.world?

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- carlnewton@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Thanks 😃 I’ve posted it there before when it was still in its early stages, but have avoided so recently for two reasons:
  
  While federation is and has always been the plan, I have not yet written any functionality for this. The project is in the first phase, which focuses on fulfilling functionality that makes an instance worthwhile in silo.
  
  While it will be federated, it will not be a part of the fediverse. This is a distinction I have learned since initially posting it there. Instances will communicate with each other, but I have no intention of adding activitypub or anything like that to have posts on other platforms.
  
  I will look out for other communities though, do you have any more in mind?
  
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  - otter@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh I see, that makes sense :)
    
    Maybe these communities then:
    
    !opensource@lemmy.ml
    
    !opensource@programming.dev
    
    You could also post about the community in !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
    
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    carlnewton@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks! I’ve just requested to the admin at the programming.dev one, as I can’t find the rules of promoting my own project, but it seems like the most appropriate place.
    
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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I feel that when I post about my project, I am contributing.

This is specifically the reason why the exemption would exist - because it is a contribution to the community. You don’t have a paywall impacting use, the whole thing is just something being shared to others.

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