I think this is a good idea and wish you all the best.

Moderation will be key of course, but the rules ( http://diagonlemmy.social/post/108 ) sound good.

At the same time, if somebody doesn’t even want to think about HP, they can easily block the entire instance, no harm no foul.

Awesome, I didn’t know that either! TIL

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/fatal-shooting-in-dnipro-prosecutor-s-office-1693395914.html

“I don’t know what weapons the next big war will be fought with, but one afterwards with be fought with sticks and drones.” - Einstein, probably

I’m actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It’s selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.