As well as flair on posts, people can use flair on themselves in the comments, to indicate what their expertise or experience is, etc.

Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it’s really just like Jitsi with more features.

The things I paid attention to was

USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.

The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.

Every time I set up a new server I need to copy the config off a similar other server.

Instead, could you include a way to more quickly set up sensible defaults for various basic scenarios? e.g. leave the defaults alone in a ‘Dev machine’ scenario but options for ‘web server’ where you typically want mariadb to use 25% of RAM and another option for ‘standaline dB server’ where you want mariadb to use basically everything.

Lol, rip

IMO framing this as a way to protect the feelings of the poster sets us up to debate how people should react to downvotes. That was my initial reaction, anyway. It’s not a productive discussion, too much judgement.

But there are heaps of other good reasons why you might want to just show a single number (upvotes minus downvotes), for everyone, not just when viewing one’s own content.

• cleaner, less cluttered UI
• simpler code?
• people don’t need to know how many downvotes a comment got (their own comments OR other people’s), all that really matters is the aggregate score

Reddit and PieFed both just show one number - the score - and it works fine. On PieFed you can hover your mouse over the score to get a tooltip that breaks it down into up and down but afaik no one cares.

If other people can see that I got downvoted a lot but I can’t then every little snarky comment about how many downvotes I’m getting is going to trigger extreme FOMO and the urge to turn the downvote hiding feature off. An unknown amount of downvotes is worse than knowing how many downvotes there are.

You want to be more welcoming to the people who freak out about downvotes? The people for whom the slightest criticism is a huge problem?

I’ll keep the sh.itjust.works one for a few weeks so we can go back to it if the move doesn’t work out.

You’re going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

https://piefed.social/ is 99% functional with noscript, if you’re into that. I have JS disabled while posting this comment.

Sounds like you’d need to write a Linux kernel driver for it, which would be a pretty serious undertaking.

Bear in mind that it has 10% as many subscribers.

heh heh heh

MailCow is similar except uses docker. I expect that will mean easier maintenance as it is less tightly bound to the underlying OS.

Anytime there is a open source “community edition” and a closed-source “enterprise edition” it’s pretty suspect. There will always be a temptation to make the community edition a bit crippled, to drive sales of the paid version.

You’re asking a lot from a LinkedIn post

It’s a bug, yep! Will look into it.

That’s normal price in my country.

PieFed, which federates with Lemmy so you can get all the same content, just added a new step to the onboarding process which sets up a Trump and Musk filter based on your preferences:

There was a really good discussion recently which will give you some ideas - see https://piefed.social/post/436507?sort=top