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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] gccalvin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if I made my own Lemmy instance, and subscribed to !selfhosted, does that mean if Lemmy.world went down, the !selfhosted community is still up?

[–] stown@lmy.rndmm.us 1 points 1 year ago

I believe that any posts and comments that were pulled and stored on your server will remain but new posts or comments will no longer federate. I'm actually not sure if new posts would be possible at all but you could always test it by setting up 2 servers.

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[–] drdaeman@lemmy.zhukov.al 1 points 1 year ago

Pros: you [sort of] own your Fediverse identity; you can make any changes to your instance you want (if you know how to do it); you’re in control of whom you peer with.

Cons: maintenance burdens (especially if you make any changes); content discovery complexity; possibly slightly less privacy (as you’re the only user of the instance, whatever is visible about it can be directly attributed to your activity). All solvable, of course.

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