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Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I did. The benefits as I see them:

I can still use Lemmy if the instance I would have used as my "home instance" ever went down.
Even if a public instance doesn't go down, all this extra load is making strange bugs surface that I don't encounter (I still have the live refresh bug everyone has, but not this one).
I have full control over my account.
If I ever want to get to customizing my UI later, I can.
Content I create originates on my instance, and I have full control over it. I can't stop other instances from caching what I post publicly, but this still gives me more data governance.
I can curate my "All" tab to only show stuff I actually want to see, instead of trying to figure out how to block communities (not sure if that's possible for regular users).
I get a custom domain which I think is pretty neat.

[–] Mac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Regular users can block communities and instances both.

[–] fishhf@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's possible to migrate those Reddit datasets and import them into our own Lemmy instance

[–] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’ve wondered the same. I know I’m not the only one with the 1.8 TB Reddit data dump. It would be cool to import all that into a Lemmy instance.