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Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RedirectedPotato@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don't want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean hosting a server just for your own personal use? Technical knowhow aside there are pros and cons.

Pros:

You're very unlikely to get defederated from anywhere and can control exactly who you defederate from
You're not at the whim of your server owner suddenly deciding to shut down one day
You can decide whether or not to host communities on your server, in which case you'll have control over exactly which ones get to be hosted there

Cons:

You'll need to search harder for communities to build up your subscription feed because you won't have other users searching and indexing new things all the time, so you'll be fairly reliant on sites like lemmyverse.net at least at first.
Anecdotally I've heard that once you've got some bigger communities federated with your own, the database storage requirements can be surprisingly big. That's just from off-hand comments from other admins though, I don't know enough to comment or have any hard numbers on it.

[–] matthieu_xyz@piaille.fr 1 points 1 year ago

@thegiddystitcher @RedirectedPotato
Another con: You become an admin/moderator and have to keep up to date with the latest bad servers to defederate from and you’ll have to deal with all kind of bad posts yourself instead of relying on a moderation team.