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How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by pe1uca@lemmy.one to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?

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[–] Neuromancer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One related question I have about this: How much ongoing storage would one expect for this kind of instance? My understanding is that the fediverse is push-based, so if I run my own instance that means that all communities I subscribe to are pushing updates to my instance which presumably get stored in a database somewhere. It seems like that could really add up to a lot of data.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had my instance running for a month now, and currently my volumes folder (which holds all the data for Lemmy) is only 493M, so I don't foresee any storage issues!

From what I understand, any images from other communities don't actually get replicated to your instance (you just see a link to where it is saved on the original community), but I could be wrong on that.

[–] Neuromancer@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If that's true about images that does greatly reduce my concern. Text is small and easily compressed. That said, I fully hope to see multiple orders of magnitude of increased traffic if/as Lemmy gains traction.