I hope this post is not too off topic. I thought that it would be nice to see the address of all the small self-hosted instances of Lemmy (1~5 users).

  • Acid@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone tell me the advantage of selfhosting Lemmy?

    I have my Raspberry Pi which is only doing pihole atm and I’ve got an M2 Mac mini with some spare resources with docker installed so I’ve got hardware for it but what does it actually do?

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      1 year ago

      I decided to pull the trigger when I was on sh.it just.works and Beehaw defederated them and Lemmy.world. I immediately couldn’t see posts from the super active beehaw communities even though I didn’t do anything. Realized it kind of did matter which instance you chose.

      Totally never going to run a community on here, but at least I can see everything now, I can keep my post history, and if I get defederated it’s probably because I messed something up with my server

    • Hangry @lm.helilot.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Random thoughts here:
      I am in control of the backup of my data.
      I don’t have to worry about an instance going off, or a radical change of policy.
      I can choose whatever pseudonym I want.
      I participate in the decentralization of the network, which feels good after the fiasco of monolithic Reddit.
      (Edit) I am also in charge of its content and its user base.

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        1 year ago

        I am in control of the backup of my data.

        This made me curious - does your own instance also have a copy of anything you post in communities hosted on other instances?