Here is my attempt to archive r/homelab before it went dark. Google says there about 92,400 results for site:reddit.com/r/homelab, I have 2098, that’s only about 2% of it. Maybe there is something of use to you in that 2%.
Please don’t webscrape, if you want all the data you can get the raw BDFR archive at https://archive.douwes.co.uk/reddit/homelab.tar or the live web version at https://archive.douwes.co.uk/reddit/homelab-web.tar
it’s not official, also the mod here seems to be inactive. but it’s the biggest homelab lemmy I could find on https://browse.feddit.de/
I don’t know where all the people from r/homelab have gone. some other subreddit that have closed have flooded into lemmy but r/homelab doesn’t seem to have done that.
Yep I saw a post saying that they are still deciding the platform to use (Lemmy, forum, etc…)
maybe something selfhosted? there’s no shortage of servers in the community
I don’t know if self hosting is good for this purpose. What if something happens to the owner of the server or to the server itself? I think it is better to use something like lemmy.world, lm or other instances of Lemmy
A lot are on discord, but the mods are looking at an official Lemmy alternative. At the moment lemmy.ml is having significant issues so I’m not sure how that’s impacting federation, but hopefully they improve their servers soon…
Personally I don’t think Lemmy is really a great alternative in its current state especially with servers being able to defederate other servers, meaning that users registered on Beehaw for example can’t now view communities hosted on lemmy.world which seems to entirely defeat the purpose to me…
What kind of issues is .lm having right now? Why not using lemmy.world?
Their instance is hugely overloaded, I think I saw somewhere where people were being encouraged not to register there for now (I mention that as this sub is on .ml). lemmy.world is certainly a more stable server, however users registered on beehaw now can’t access it, this is a major issue I see with how Lemmy and de-federation is allowed, but also “homelab” is already registered there although not used, it would likely be my preference though and I have looked at it…
I die inside every time I see discord of matrix used that lol. I feel like homelab users have more than enough processing power to run their own lemmy instance or maybe a forum. The beehaw situation really isn’t good. I suppose you could use lemmy like a forum though? I hope they get something sorted out though.
Processing power isn’t really the issue, but ensuring that whatever we do is stable & reliable (we can’t just run it off a server in my office, running a bot there is fine but a sub not so much), open (the de-federation issue) and not difficult to moderate (Not gone in to much detail but apparently it’s lacking)