I can't think of a single open source / self hostable app that needed, or even had an option to deploy as a function. I have seen FaaS projects though, but they deploy to docker.
We moved off a pi onto a proxmox server for better storage etc.
Best cards for the dashboard are the cards that matter most to you. We have our solar stuff, and some switches that we use most, as well as the camera feed for the gate.
As for presence detection, the app has your location and a home/away entity that might be what you are looking for?
Merging communities might be hard, but maybe redirecting a community to another instance? this would also allow people to move communities from one instance to another, which would allow large communities to have dedicated instances, or to consolidate related communities under the same instance.
Allowing communities to exist across multiple instances is going to be a nightmare now that I think about it, like how will moderation work? I can already see it becoming a new way to spam. Create your own lemmy instance, spam a post, and make it so that no one can delete it. It'll cause instances to disable open federation, which would mean we'll end up with only a few allowed instances
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