Look up “cheese pizza” on Urban Dictionary, a spurious usage that has become known for being at the center of the PizzaGate conspiracy nonsense, with a smaller later resurgence in Epstein Files conspiracy theories.

If this were, like, a restaurant review app, I’d consider it kind of a corny name but not really bat an eye. But for an app meant to share files directly between people without an intermediary… Don’t name it CheezyPizza.

CheezyPizza is an open source, browser-based file transfer app that uses WebRTC to transfer files directly between two browsers.

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It is actually a fork of FilePizza, which is a pretty solid tool but has its limitations. Like large files would fail, and there is no way to pause or resume a transfer if something goes wrong.

FilePizza

Cooked up by Alex Kern & Neeraj Baid while eating Sliver @ UC Berkeley.

Okay, I now understand the chain of events that led to this name. But also…don’t. Don’t name it that.

!askelectronics@tchns.de is a bit more low level than is most common, but may still be worth including on the list.

My personal thought as a lurker trying to learn enough through osmosis to start her own set-up is that hardware concerns are fine as long as they still relate to self-hosting in some fashion. “What hardware setup would be good for beginners looking to self-host a Google Drive alternative on a budget?” is self-hosting, fine, and the type of thing I would bookmark for my own reference. “Anyone have advice on cannibalizing an old laptop to DIY a mini PC?” would really not be self-hosting, even if your plan is to use the resulting mini PC to self-host a server.

I’d also be inclined to treat posts that are off-topic but have a selection of informative high-effort comments by locking them and sharing them to the appropriate community for further discussion there vs. removing them entirely.

Which is to say, yes, I like your proposed revision.

https://lemmy.world/post/47758551

I’m just gonna link this post.

If I had to paraphrase what happened, there was some (IMO polite) disagreement over the stringency of enforcing rule 3 and whether it was negatively impacting the community by removing posts that people worked hard to answer due to being more of a hardware-related topic, and then the previous mod abruptly made the people who offered the criticism moderators without any discussion on the matter with them first and then hasn’t been seen on Lemmy since.

Despite the absolutely wild events that led us here, you sound like a really solid moderator. Thanks for the intro!