From the comments, the poll is not well done.

Any forums you recommend?

There’s so many providers, and they don’t always make it clear when they change hardware. Amazon AWS feels pretty open about it, they are good. I doubt the resource you are looking for will ever exist. You won’t be able to make a purchase decision with all the info you want.

Having said that, you did bring a ton of resources together in this post, thank you for that!

I like this idea. I’ve been self hosting using A VPS cloud server, but this is a great reason to do something in my home.

I think https://masto.host/ offers what you want, you can pay to host mastodon. I haven’t seen the same for Lemmy.

Thanks for the summary, I haven’t heard of it. Sounds similar to kanboard, I’ll check it out.

Please keep working on it, thank you for your effort.

I think it’s cool they are using myBB, I’m a big fan for that style of community.

Self hosting music is still on my TODO list, I’ll check this out later. BTW, what is Scrobbling?

subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps

I think it’s a “pick your battle” kind of thing. People don’t want to spend a large amount of timing fighting about a website. The fight is worth different amounts to different people. Those who set their subreddit to private did their part to voice their disagreement. People know that they can’t really control Reddit. Either people will go back to it, or they will move on to something else like Lemmy or the other options. I won’t get mad at those who re-open their subreddits, there is more to Reddit than it killing the 3rd party apps. I’ll stay here at Lemmy and contribute to it so it’s a good option for others, I hope more will join us here, but let’s not hate people for their choice of website or how dedicated they are to online protests.

doing that via Lemmy – or any federated platform – wasn’t the right choice.

Yeah, feels like they picked the wrong technology for their community. A phpBB style forum with isolated signup & long-developed moderation tools might have been better for what they want.

Tildes? Got any pointers to that one?

Is there an equivalent of “going dark” in lemmy? Like if there is some “global” or “fediverse” issue that communities want to protest, is there the same option as back on Reddit that they are using now?

Hey /u/Mac if you know more can you expand? I understand it’s asking me to pick a language, I just don’t understand the warning. If i’m posting in english, it seems I should pick “english”, but the warning makes it sound like i’ll be missing out if I do that. What would I miss out on? What does it mean to “not see most content”? Why even have an option then? It’s just super unclear what happens.

Some issues I’ve seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I’ve been playing with it.

1. I can follow a lemmy community on my mastodon account but all the posters do not show their avatar. (actually i just checked again and my avatar shows up, but others don’t, so perhaps there is a long delay?)

2. I replied to a lemmy post on mastodon, and it showed up in lemmy, but when I’m logged in to lemmy and I try to post a reply to that it never publishes, the “post” button becomes the spinner and never makes the reply. This post for reference. This is the only one that feels like a bug.

3. when someone on another lemmy instance makes a post on our community, a mastodon toot goes out, but it links to their post on their community. It makes it a little odd to follow a link and it takes me to another instance than the one hosting the community. Maybe this isn’t a bug, just kinda annoying, kinda fediverse in general it’s tough to bounce between instances. Example. Ok making that link, it’s clear that the “post” originated from the instance. I guess this is just how it works. Message Board systems are a bit more tricky than twitter-style systems.

4. When I make a post, it’s got a warning Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content. and I have no idea what this is talking about.

5. I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.

You’re the admin of Lemmy.World? Thanks for hosting this place. What got you into self-hosting?