Heyo everyone, hope you’re all doing well.

I haven’t had a lot of time to focus on getting the rules and sidebar set up for this place, but hopefully I should be able to tackle that in the next few days.

Before I did, I wanted your opinions on a few things, as I plan on diverging from the original Reddit BIFL community slightly:

  1. I’d like the limit the amount of posts of vintage or antique items that are no longer in production. I think the real value of the BIFL community initially was as a resource to find high value, long lasting items that are easily obtained.

However, there is some value in older items that can be found used on eBay, so I think a good compromise (which was suggested in the Introduction thread) would be a weekly or monthly vintage/antique mega thread that people can post in. Are you guys into that?

  1. Since this is a solarpunk instance, Homemade stuff (which is not allowed on r/BIFL) is encouraged here, as long as instructions on how to make the item are included (text or video).

  2. I’m thinking about letting a limited amount of self-promotion occur here. I believe self-promotion wasn’t allowed on reddit due to them wanting people to purchase ad-space on the site. But since lemmy isn’t commercialized, I think it’d be okay to allow a bit of it, but with certain stipulations:

The item being promoted would have to be inline with solarpunk ideals. I.E, using reclaimed/recycled materials, be open-source, hackable, user-serviceable, etc. (Open to other suggestions for criteria).

That’s just an idea though.

  1. I think it’d be pretty neat to compile a list of all the stuff posted here that’s easily searchable in categories. I plan on using a simple Gitlab Readme page, since that’s something I’m familiar with, but I’m not sure if that’s the best option. I haven’t actually contributed to wiki’s before, so I didn’t really look into that. I would like to self-host something eventually (inspired by reading stuff in the selfhost community here), but I’m not currently in a position to reliably do that, so for now I’m just looking at stuff that will host the list for free.

I guess that’s all I had in mind so far. Let me know what you guys think, and any other ideas you have that could make this community better!

Cheers, ProdigalFrog

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    I love all the ideas for the community, especially the inclusion of handmade or modified items. Vintage item megathred will be especially good on lemmy since users can post images in the comments.

    The only thing im iffy about is self promotion/advertising-- maybe it could be limited certain day of the week or something? I like the other stipulations you listed for self promotion.

    Thanks for taking over the comminity! Im looking forward to it becomming more active :)