I'm hosting and using my own instance personally, but the important part is that it's decentralized and federated. Think of it like email - businesses often have their own email servers they use to communicate with yours, unlike on Facebook or Reddit where all of it happens on their servers.

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

Exactly, there's a difference between self-hosted networks like meshes and mostly privately hosted. It's like calling all email self-hosted, even though less than 1% of users self-host.

[–] aranym@lemmy.name 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As far as I know, they never claimed Lemmy was entirely self-hosted. Their intention was likely to say it can be, in which case decentralized would've been more clear..

[–] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The original commenter said that "Lemmy is self-hosted". This is what this comment thread was about. It sure is decentralized, not really self-hosted, even though you can host it youself.

Edit: read another comment wrong

[–] aranym@lemmy.name 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm aware of the original comment. I also agree that Lemmy can't be referred to as self hosted in the same way that Plex can, for example. I simply think they meant to say "can be" self hosted instead of "is".

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

Just look at their comments. They full on say it's a self-hosted platform no matter what, even though most people don't host it and all of them don't have to host it.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can host your own instance, it’s not that hard. Just because you can share someone else’s self hosted instance or a larger one doesn’t make it magically different. Learn how the fediverse works.

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

Yeah, just like email. Doesn't make email a self-hosted service.