I literally just did this. Except I’m not trying to drop any money into it at the moment, so I did a free hosting option (flarum).

I’m also going to hijack this comment to shamelessly plug my new forum, in the hopes someone might be willing to come join (https://unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud/).

That is true - although to host a Lemmy community I would have to fork over some money - which I don’t really mind all that much if the community grows to a decent size - but this is a low risk way to start out.

I honestly might think about changing over to Lemmy server in the future if I the community ever gets established. (I honestly don’t know too much about what hosting a Lemmy server entails, or what the possibilties for customization are, but I’ll have to look into it)

lol, yeah - its not lost on me that Lemmy is a forum, if that is what you are getting at. But I personally equate lemmy to reddit, and while there are subs for niche topics, the idea of a standalone forum for my specific purpose seems like it has more of an opportunity to create the “small, close knit” type of community that doesn’t seem to fit within the Lemmy sphere.

I could totally be wrong, and maybe its nostalgia, but something about a good old forum seems to bring something different to the table in my eyes.

I only see 1 unrelated post in your post history. Maybe it was a different account?

Ah, ok. This clears it up a bit. So it’s moreso about the communities that are hosted on a piefed instance - as they have better moderation tools.

Thanks!

So essentially it’s just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I’m not sure what I would actually get different).

I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I’m sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I’m already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?

Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?

Honestly, the rules for this are totally different then Pai Sho rules - I just was inspired by the concept when watching Uncle Iroh when I was a kid.

It was originally inspired by Pai Sho actually, lol.

Second discord alternative I’ve seen posted, there was also peersuite, which I think is a different niche, but similar.(https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite)

Either way, I’m all for a discord alternative - we need something that is easily accessible for new onboarding users.

It’s probably been more than a year for me now, but I distro hopped a little bit at first due to little things causing issues here and there - but I finally settled down with plain old standard Debian - and I haven’t been happier.

I feel like so much hype goes into this distro or that distro, but I’ve found that Debian just works - while all the others have always required tinkering here and there.

People say Debian is going to be a bit behind on updates, but I haven’t had any issues with “older” packages - but ymmv. Granted, I’ve pretty much quit gaming, and gaming on Linux can obviously cause some headaches, depending on the games you play. Overall, I’ve been super satisfied ever since I downloaded Debian, especially with the new Trixie launch (Debian 13).

Also, I know AI is a hot topic, but with LLMs these days, it’s pretty easy to fix any issues you run into by just pasting any terminal error codes into an LLM. It’s far easier than back when you had to search substack and keep troubleshooting issues from people’s suggestions online.