Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • Korgen@lemmy.korgen.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.

    • jason@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      How is your RAM/storage usage? I’m interested in setting up my own instance (no communities, just a username that will always be here) but don’t want to upgrade my VPS again. I already had to do that spinning up a Mastodon server.

    • StrangeWorrier@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage.

      You have to worry about it yourself though.