I’ve been selfhosting my video / photo / book collections for a while now and also running other services like personal bugeting, piehole DNS, and stuff like that.
Lately I’ve been working on the hardware side of my home network. I’m looking for some advice and normally I’d turn to one of the homelab communities. But the three communities I found hadn’t had much or any activity in the past 6 months.
I considered asking a question here related to my switch and my wifi access point. I bet there are lots of clever folks in this community. But before hitting submit I remembered to check the community rules in the side bar and noticed rule #3:
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.
Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware? Anyone have some recommendations for neighbouring communities they find useful?
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Homelab is so 2025. We’re all building EMF pulsing devices in 2026 in preparation of the redacted.
there are a large bunch spending time on Discord as well
Found a couple of them on SimpleX chat as well, those you can find yourself as well in SimpleX directory: Linux, Selfhosting and homelab (I think)
Then there are some forums like Proxmox, Nextcloud and idk others, however these are scattered
Disgusting. Please remove your discord links. Discord is a surveillance platform that works with ICE.
I hadn’t considered checking out the communities for some of the widely used homelab applications like Proxmox. That’s a great idea, thanks.
Create your post and put a notice saying it might not be under the rules. I agree with the previous post, the traffic is not overwhelming so the admins might let it stay. We’re human after all.
As for your question, I don’t think I have any community. I usually watch some hardware related channels on YT.YouTube has been useful. Mostly as a way to filter out unreliable info. I’ve had best luck with creators who have actually written out a guide and are then making a video companion for it. Anyone who goes through the trouble to do both tends to be serious about what they are talking about.
But it’s not a great way to ask questions and get answers. Hmmm, I say that, but to be honest I haven’t checked the comments on those videos. Maybe it is a good way to have a dialogue and I just haven’t seen it
Might be wrong, not a mod. My interpretation is if youre discussing hardware in the context of self hosting itd be ok? But general hardware posts (like news, new products) arent appropriate
Dude is going to make his second post and get yanked. LOL
That’s my understanding too, and that way it ends up over there rather than here:
