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
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)
fair, It just feels like we’re going back to centralisation if everything is on lemmy.world. What do mean about difficult to moderate? the instance or the community?
I’m not saying we would go down the lemmy.world route, but equally it wouldn’t be a home server, there are more reliable options, lemmy.world is struggling a little right now. For moderation I was specifically referring to the tools available to moderate the community, automod on reddit is very powerful and helps take the simpler tasks out of moderation that stop subs becoming spammed and botted messes, the API is very useful for moderation bots and there are some other useful tools, Lemmy isn’t close yet and will be a while off…
Edit: Sorry and yes I’m not a fan of discord either, it’s not got the knowledge retention like a reddit format where you can go back and pick up on a 2 year old conversation…