Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chatEnglish
    49·
    2 years ago

    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.
    • fishhf@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

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

      • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years 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.