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My self hosted badges of honor (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.

FOSS source is here.

Hexagonal mosaic stickers arranged in a honeycomb pattern on metal, featuring open source and tech logos including Tux, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant, Debian, Android, and others. Each design has a triangular mosaic texture.
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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I got them from Etsy

Ugh.. just say you made them if is your shop.. this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice..

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Why though? Just curious

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It reeks of "manufactured organic content" if that makes sense. This may not have been OPs intention, but it kinda checks those marks:

    • post content, praise it, don't mention you make and sell it
    • another user finds out you make and sell it, posts store link
    • post disguised as advert, manufactured organic conversation around the product creates an effective advertisment

    It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this is what modern advertising is and I prefer to have full transparency. A disclosure in the post would have been nice. Again, I'm not saying this was OP's intention, it just hits the same points.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 9 months ago

    You're not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven't shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just "I'm proud of this". If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don't sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they're so inclined.

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