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
    8•1 year ago

    All the ideas are great, save for the allowing self promotion/videos bit

    Lemmy already has a big problem with people pushing their YouTube channels in your face at every opportunity

    Dear god the thumbnails 🤢

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Agreed on skipping self promotion videos but you might be conflating tutorials on DIY BIFL and promotion of products ‘inline with solarpunk ideals’, both of which I’m down for given a subdued tone for the promotion, good moderation required!, and videos only if direly needed for a comprehensive explanation.

    • ProdigalFrogOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Regarding self promotion; I was thinking more along the lines of if someone was making high quality handmade items, they could mention their etsy page/web store or some such. I suspect the amount of people who’ll actually take advantage of that ability will be quite limited, considering both the relative small userbase of lemmy as well as needing to meet the listed criteria as well.

      If it did become an issue, I could always change the rules at a later point :D

      Lemmy already has a big problem with people pushing their YouTube channels in your face at every opportunity

      I think to avoid that, links to videos as the main content of the post will not be allowed. Instead, Video links could be constrained to the text body of the post only, and possibly even limited to providing additional instruction for Homemade/DIY items.