Self-promotion posts advertising their product requires community participation, or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted *in full* without payment, your post is exempt from this rule.

How about

Promotional posts advertising a product requires community participation. If more than 10% of your history is promotional it will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If a project is completely open source and can be self-hosted in full without payment, it is exempt.

Edit: we’ve come full circle. Let’s just do ‘don’t be a shill’ and be done with it…

Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & without any paywalls, it will be exempt from this rule.

To me, this says, if you’re posting something behind a paywall (F/LOSS or not) they’re going to look at your post history. If you’re a shill, it will be removed. If you’re someone who self hosts and just wants to talk about self hosted apps, you’re fine.

Said another way, if all you do is post promo content it’s not welcome here. If it’s a one off then post it.

Look, if you don’t like the rule, make a suggestion to the mods on how to make it better. The spirit here is we all love learning and using new tools paid or not. If you want to share something new to you, like Plex, I’m 100% sure its fine. Post, promote what you love, start a conversation around Plex. The problem is if you only ever talk about Plex and promote it. It gets old FAST and it’s not a community I want to he apart of.

Symfonium is another paid example. Amazing app. Even with the new rules we can post about them. With that, I don’t understand your original complaint.

If you’re not pushing your paywalled stuff, it doesn’t affect you, does it?

Yeah, I understand that. I was suggesting saying the same thing without the exception wording. In the end, it doesn’t stop us from talking about paid software. I use Plex, etc, etc, it’s the promotion that’s the problem… That being said, maybe I’ve misunderstood non_burglar’s complaint. Unless they are a closed source dev looking to promote.

I think that’s the important distinction to make. Maybe get rid of the f/loss exception and explicitly call out the paid aspect. If you’re here to promote software that’s pay walled you get the 10% rule.

ETA: I’m fine with the new rules. Just trying to find common ground.

You can use the host file to point matrix.example.ca to 127.0.0.1 or whatever endpoint you want to try.

You could set up a docker container with cinny to try a different app. https://cinny.in/

I don’t like elements so I avoid it, not sure what to suggest there.

I’d try on the PI against the service port to remove all the extra complexity. If that doesn’t work, fix it and move on to the next layer, fixing as needed until you get to the end.

The problem with that type is that the other user needs to be at their device at the same time.

With send/pingvin I have a public instance that allows 100GB for 14 days. I’ll just use that when I want to send or receive a file with someone. So much easier and I can just send the link vs try and schedule a time.

Install docker.

Choose something you want to replace. Docs, image, chat, etc.

Research replacements for $Service

Bring up the docker Container and get it working.

Use it for a day/week as the replacement. If you don’t like it try a different replacement from the list above. Continue until happy.

Research a replacement for $OtherService

Bring it up on docker…

Check resources as you go. Maybe use Linux + docker on laptop and NFS from nas for storage. When the laptop isn’t powerful enough anymore look at adding another docker host. Just keep building from there.

Also backups. Maybe a wiki to document your journey.

Welp, I came here to say I use to use send but now I’m on pingvin. Found a link quickly for you and it has been archived. Guess I’m going back to send.

Thank you for using TiB.