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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I've heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn't been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don't have an "All".

    I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn't lose your history.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That's a good point... was just looking into how I'd go about backing up my post+comment history and the only answer is basically "you need to use a special tool that pretends to be a lemmy client and fetches your history item by item". I guess "host your own instance and migrate to that" is another one.

    Which is surprisingly silly for what was supposed to be a more open platform than others. Heck, I can submit a GDPR request to Reddit and get a full dump of my account within the hour.

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