I'm planning to self host - but just have one question, mostly a confirmation, as long as you're not hosting communities, you can comment and interact with others, without needing other instances to explicitly sync with your insurance, right?

I kind of want my own instance just to control what communities I sync for my own account, but not going to host any myself, so defederation of some instances doesn't affect me (unless I myself want to block them)

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I'm doing and it has been working great so far.

[–] venusenvy47@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do the big instances need to give permission, to your self-hosted instance, to read and post on their communities?

Do those instance owners need to manually approve access from some unknown small instance?

[–] slashzero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds correct to me.

[–] OptimusPrime@lemmy.moonling.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I love owning my own identity.

[–] sayitghoul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you self host? Is the always free AWS package an option to do this?

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

You could self host :)

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I aim to self-host myself, one of these days. I'm having analysis paralysis picking a VPS tho, because I'll want to move my other online socials there too.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use Docker or Ansible or something, so that migrating between VPSs is easy.

(Also, if you're solid, what does that make me?!)

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

(Also, if you’re solid, what does that make me?!)

Liquid, Gas or Plasma, mate. 🙃