It’s a bit contrary to the spirit of self-hosting to promote giant centralised walled gardens, like Cloudflare. Please remove selfhosted@lemmy.world from the sidebar (otherwise, why not add whatever self-hosted Facebook communities there are?). Also consider removing selfhost@lemmy.ml because it’s centralised by size (the node size is 2 standard deviations above the mean).
I propose in place of those two centralised communities, these free-world decentralised communities instead, which are more conducive to avoiding centralised power:
!selfhosted@krabb.org
!homelab@lemmy.lidstah.info
!selfhosted@lemmy.nexus
!SelfHosted@europe.pub
!esc@europe.pub
I’m conflicted. !selfhosted@lemmy.world has a lot more content currently, and is federated here. It also seems a bit weird to limit communities by size; “sorry everyone, this community has 100 users now, please make a new one”. I do like smaller communities better for discussions/etc, but bigger communities are still useful.
Something like a self-hosted facebook group is not the same thing as a lemmy community on another federated instance, IMO.
I’ll think about how to reword the sidebar and maybe add something about preferring smaller local communities where possible. Thank you for links to the other communities, I’ll take a look and consider linking to them as well!
Self-hosting is often motivated to escape centralised oppressive control. Not always, but at least for me it is the primary or secondary motivator for self-hosting in most situations. Self-hosting is the extreme opposite of centralised control, in effect. So when the side-bar of the group suggests that people go to a bigger (in fact, the biggest in the threadiverse) more centralised community, credibility and philosophical alignment are questionable. It indicates a conflict of interest.
The other motivator (for me, anyway) is privacy, which is hand-in-hand with avoiding centralised services. Cloudflare (L/W) is also antithetical to privacy.