Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • StrangeWorrier@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    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.

    • Muddybulldog@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      A balancing act for sure. I’m torn on the topic. With some much excitement right now but so little history there’s a lot of uncertainty where to “plant your flag”. Part of me wants to setup my own instance simply so I maintain control of my identity should .world suddenly disappear. On the other hand now I have the responsibility of making sure I don’t make myself disappear. The mental debate will continue.

      • IowaMan@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        I think for now it’s so early it doesn’t matter all that much. Just have fun! You can make multiple accounts so why not

    • CaptainApathetic@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      Yea but if you host with a major cloud server provider you’re basically having 100% uptime because they very very rarely go down and so the only issues would be stuff you’d have to deal with.