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I'm reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service).

This basically shuts my idea down, because I wanted to simply host my account myself and browse all of Lemmy as I please.

So is everyone hosting individual instances dealing with them being public? is there a workaround to avoid having a public service that anyone can see?

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This basically shuts my idea down

it's not very difficult to modify the code for something like this.... and closing off registration wont' let anyone else login and create new content form your istance.

Personally the load on the major servers by having one more instance that subscribes to everything is why I think people should back off from creating more than the 1500 instances Lemmy network already has. Delivery of every single vote, comment, post 24 hours a day just so one person can read content for an hour or two a day.

That makes sense for email systems where all that content doesn't have to be sent, but for Lemmy it's a huge amount of overhead.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

the load on the major servers by having one more instance that subscribes to everything

But why would the instance subscribe to everything?

[–] net00@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Didnt look at it like that tbh, and it makes sense now that I think about it.