I'm no pro here, but I think the underlying 'issue' is that soon these types of sites will be driven by AI. Mods will just look over the content, but sadly I think the days of mods being the most intelligent person in the room are numbered.

I don't trust AI output/answers today, but tomorrow they're going to be spot-on and answer better than we can. :/

I think the Inc. [corporations] know the writing on the wall and are just getting everyone ready for the inevitable asap.

What say you?

I'm going to setup a Lemmy node. I'm not on lemmy.ml anyway, but I want this platform to r0ck!

I'll lean it up ASAP!

The real question is what Window Manager has the best GUI... you can run any window manager on any distro - it just takes a little work.

If you're talking about out-of-the-box without any user customization, I'll make a couple suggestions that I think work for new Linux users - not that I'm saying you're green, but most power users know they can fully design the OS from the ground up if needed.

PopOS - In between - GNOME-like with some PopOS customizations under the hood.

ElementaryOS - MacOS-like WM thats clean fresh and easy to understand

Mint - Cinnamon DM, Windows-like with some customization possible

Hold my beer! LEMMINGS

I only know enough code to break things, but I wouldn't mind working on some documentation - I'll go read what Lemmy needs; thanks for reminding me that anyone can chip in.

BBSes were the very first way to connect to other computers/systems. Well... prior to BBSes is was possible to literally dial another user with a terminal program; the user you were dialing would answer the modem and all you could do was type to each other and send a file if needed... there were no menus, logins or ... anything; it just opened a TEXT connection with a protocol for transferring files.

Christian Ward created the first BBS, CBBS, during a winter storm in 1979 - IIRC... you can still dial into that first CBBS board!! I'd have to find the link, but there is a clone of the original out there for users to experience... its very text based, but does have ONE message area (a message board) that users can post to.

When I was in grade school, BBSes became the main way we'd connect with other people... in High School I ran my first Telegard BBS, and later switched to Renegade... [bbs softwares]

Its amazing that people still love the technology enough to run these BBSes... I'll never shut 2o fOr beeRS down - I hope you get a terminal software and dial out. I do host a terminal software right on my website, which you could find and connect to 2oFB @ http://20ForBeers.com:1339

I'm a Frame.work user and love the platform... I recently dropped my laptop pretty good; dented the screen case permanently. Its really awesome that I'll be able to upgrade the machine instead of living with the damage. Frame.work has, since the first machines, offered upgraded hinges and an all-aluminum screen case; I'll probably even order the better speakers they now offer, and the higher capacity battery they recently announced when I make the repairs...

On the horizon, I'm looking at the new Ryzen mainboards they've announced... they aren't prime time just yet, but are coming quick.

I've run Windows and many flavors of Linux; all of which the Frame.work chews on nicely... I can't wait to see where they go.

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Theres plenty of replies with options of decent, current NAS setups - so I'll reply with my 1st NAS instead...

You could start with a Pi-NAS to save a lot of $$coin$$... start with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB; it has gigabit ethernet, so it meets that baseline... since you'll be running over the USB-3 BUS regardless, you can get away with buying cheap USB drives; there are many brands, but Western Digitals are pretty cheap... they go up to like 40GB now a days, but 4TB drives are only $100 or so... I went with two 8TB drives. Its better, IMO, to go with the larger 3.5" versions because they come with external power supplies. I found with the smaller 2.5" drives, the Pi could only power one sucking power over USB...

I used no RAID, as you have to jump thru a few extra hoops to get RAID setup over drives on the USB-3 bus... backup was done thru my Proxmox PBS server - but we're not here for the safe backup talk, right?

All this was running OpenMediaVault, which is a pretty decent NAS software. It has support for all the connection types you want - and believe it or not, I also ran Plex in docker and got decent results; while I wasn't able to do any transcoding, wireless playback worked quick enough for me - and I could even watch movies remotely...

I mention this setup b/c a 16TB Pi-NAS can be had for $300, all in... you can see speeds of 100MB/s but I found 40-50MB/s was an average because of WiFi or other bottlenecks.

Its cool to have options when building a NAS; I've since moved my NAS to a Proxmox VM on my Dell Poweredge server, but the Pi-NAS ran without fail for four years...

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I wish one of the candidates would do something intelligent;

President Biden needs to step down if the dems want a chance at retaining POTUS. Ignorance here, but could Biden run as the vice-POTUS?? This would allow him to continue getting things done in office, while letting someone better equipped to lead get in front of the Trump train.

I'd love for a different republican to win the nomination, but will that happen? Is Desantis a better option for the rep's? I don't know...

I wish that Biden would come up with something that might work - else I fear that we'll have another repeat of 2016.

Xibalba is actually the WHQ BBS for Enigma 1/2 BBS software... I agree w/ you that Enigma.5 is super rad - in fact, NuSkooler had been working on some integration w/ Mastodon altho I don't think that feature has made it to the codebase just yet...

ENiGMA.5 Github

And the docs...

The ever-changing landscape of new software.

I took a look at the manual [Lemmy] installation and it doesn't seem to terrible... a few scripts and you can get updates, even...

I'm with you, tho; while I run a few services on Docker, ansible and the like - I prefer to spin things up in a normal filesystem that I can look at, touch and see operating.

We're continuing to move away from the norm... UGH.

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Thankyou for the link - I'm good at Linux stuff w/ the right info - trust me, I've tried to find this data... :P

Appreciate yer help!

Thanks so much for the reply; others have mentioned the same, or similar, but your response spelled it out... I knew this was what I needed to do [scenerio 2] but I just didn't have experience with setting up the proxy - I'm technical enough to RTFM and will get this setup today; one thing that was kinda fudging me up was that my Bitwarden machine, where the domain currenty forwards to, runs in a docker container - so I think I'll actually forward the OTHER domain to the 'lemmy' [although its not lemmy, just using your example as the reference..] machine that's just an Ubuntu server running apache2 for serving the website - and I'll probably end up using Apache's Name Based Virtual Host Support instead of your nginx-proxy suggestion - either way, I think its accomplishing the same.

Appreciate your, and all the other, replies - this thread literally performed better than on the /r/ platform! I'm sold on LemmyNet!

Are you kidding? Well... I don't mean that in an adversary way - but... while I don't support either of these candidates, I think that if it ends up being Biden against Trump that Trump is going to steamroll the office again - I don't even think it would be close!

Thanks for the info... new around here, how long has Beehaw existed?

I'd only need Cloudflare for one of the sites/VMs; or, both if it'll handle it easily - I'll be hosting both sites on my hardware. No sites data will be on Cloudflare, I was only thinking about using a tunnel from them to take care of one, or both, the sites.

Thank you for the reply - I'm blown away that I've gotten all these suggestions on LemmyNet before one reply on /r/!

There a few like that; Legend of the Red Dragon, The Pit, Usurper, Arrowbridge, Exitilus, DoorMUD... I think yer talking about DoorMUD. Theres a BBS today, Danger Bay, that has a 'Door Game Museum'. The BBS has 1,000s of Door Games and the searchable museum... people often go there to find long forgotten doors, but I think yer thinking of a popular one. Does DoorMUD ring a bell?

Danger Bay BBS - dangerbaybbs.dyndns.org:1337 TELNET

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I'm trying to get the mLem iOS app...

YES; I am loving the LemmyNet; I'll be here for awhile.

I live mostly on the command line - I'm not afraid to edit .conf files by hand and its how I do most all things - maybe that's why I'm having trouble with this setup!! LOLZ