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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes

I'm not an instance owner for Lemmy but a lot of us enjoy hosting different services at home on old/recycled hardware as a hobby or a means to escape big tech.

I personally run a few things like Plex (media), PiHole (adblock), and NextCloud ("cloud" storage).

It's sustainable as the Fediverse is a decentralized platform, meaning that, if necessary, we can rebuild accounts on a different instance if something happens to our existing one.

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