@hybridsarcasm@lemmy.world has not replied to me (or anyone according to his profile) after that last bit about making me and @ayyy@sh.itjust.works mods, so I'm going to go ahead and work on holding down the fort. Its a bit of a hectic weekend for me with activities for my kids, so you may see some post activity being restored or other such things in no particular order.
So who am I?
Well, I'm a specialist consultant by day, and an avid self-hoster. Off the top of my head, I host:
- Jellyfin
- An over-complicated *arr stack to suit my particular tastes of media management
- Prometheus+Loki+Grafana for my monitoring stack
- Home Assistant
- Personal website
- Immich
- MagicMirror
- ROMM for that fun emulation on the go
- Kavita (mostly because I keep forgetting to change the url on my wife's phone for the other OPDS server) & Calibre (the other OPDS)
- Local AI models for testing purposes mostly
- Endurain for my post-Strava life
- Various stuff for utility for SSO, LDAP, databases, MQTT, so on and so forth
Predominantly running on Proxmox as LXCs, with some docker here and there. So pretty much the same as a lot of you, just another *selfhoster (edit: WHOOPS! I a whole word there, now fixed)
Moderation Style
Lets call it "light touch". I'm pretty sure everyone here is more than capable of handling most things with the appropriate votes - we've seen this with the recent thread that resulted in this moderation change. In case you couldn't also guess from my home instance, I'm a firm believer in people being able to regulate themselves, so as far as I'm concerned that means the rules themselves can be up for discussion as well. As this community is on lemmy.world, of course that means the TOS here must be respected.
There are people on both sides of the keyboards, so please be respectful of others.
The one thing that I just do not tolerate is bigotry.
And finally, feel free to send me a message to address any issues! So lets have some fun with self-hosting.
Edit: Added a direct link to the Lemmy.world TOS for clarity. This community is on Lemmy.world and subject to its terms, as managed by the admin team.
Despite the absolutely wild events that led us here, you sound like a really solid moderator. Thanks for the intro!
What'd I miss?
https://lemmy.world/post/47758551
I'm just gonna link this post.
If I had to paraphrase what happened, there was some (IMO polite) disagreement over the stringency of enforcing rule 3 and whether it was negatively impacting the community by removing posts that people worked hard to answer due to being more of a hardware-related topic, and then the previous mod abruptly made the people who offered the criticism moderators without any discussion on the matter with them first and then hasn't been seen on Lemmy since.
I stopped posting and commenting on this community because things kept getting deleted even though it was all very clearly about self-hosting. It was very disappointing because I spent a lot of time on my contributions. One post I made a while ago was about self-hosting security and had tons of activity only for all that information to be removed over rule 3. Very confusing and disappointing.
I'm interested in seeing how the vibe around here changes going forward. Maybe I'll be less cautious about participating.
I hope you do!
That actually sounds like it was a fantastic post, and I don't remember even seeing it which is really disappointing. I'm still making my way through the log, and some posts seem to be completely gone as well so I won't be able to restore them, which really sucks.
One thing I really don't like is that it made people cautious to contribute, I'm really hopeful that will change.
This was a number of months ago so I doubt it would be remembered anywhere at this point. After that, a number of posts I commented in were also removed as well. It was very confusing because everything seemed appropriate for the community. I do look forward to seeing how this community grows/changes now.
I've taken a very minimalist approach to self-hosting but I've given extra attention towards security. I feel like security doesn't get talked about as much as it could be. It's especially important these days with bots roaming around everywhere.
I also use some unconventional methods that I'd like to share (layering security with obscurity with a focus on security first). It's not a one size fits all solution but I can stay private while exposing my server with minimal tools. It works for me though and my logs haven't shown any outside activity besides my own.
Sounds like this is a change for the better, eh. 😮💨
Ditto here. Rule 3 was...unevenly applied.
Please do!
Ah, thanks. Saw it when it came in and even replied.
I remember thinking "there are a ton of people here making assumptions and assuming the worst about people, based on no evidence".. Other people were saying maybe it was mods.
Sadly a bunch of those people will move forward thinking a ton of users were just being assholes and not what actually happened.
One of our new mods was banned from this community for telling someone "kys" 🤥
Certainly not me - thats an instance rule over at the FAF, and not something I'd want to see in the first place.
That said I also accept that people have off days sometimes, and a conversation that gets to that point probably wasn't handled well either to get to that point of escalation.
I would not expect to see that again in comments without a mod action on it, fwiw.
No, the other one.
Great to hear that you would have a problem with it.
Personally, unless you guys feel you are absolutely up to the task on your own, I think you should also search out a great candidate and add at least one more mod.
Part of my plan personally, but until I hear back from the lemmy.world mod team I can't even get my newly created .world alt for reports modded. I have a ticket open, once its resolved I'll be able to make a post about it.
That person appears to have also blocked me. For mentioning this history, I assume. Which seems like a REALLY bad sign for this community if so.
Got it, I'll look into things there and reach out
I'm still waiting on the LW team, could be a few days before I can do much more than the basics here...
Thanks. So far you seem like exactly the kind of person needed, I really appreciate all the thoughtful engagement already (not to me specifically, but with the community)
Great!!
Thanks for stepping up.
Well thanks!
Hopefully we'll avoid wild events in posts going forward, and just have posts about wild events in our logs instead.