I’m asking in general but also in terms of privacy. Is it worse that you’re more easily connected to your real identity through owning the domain?
There are domains you can register privately, if that’s a concern.
The main advantage is not having an admin block you from talking to certain people by defederating the instance they use.
That does sound like a serious advantage :)
The blocking part seems more rare for individual instances
i am basically the only user of my instance. it’s slow and i have to think about the fact that it’s not very private at all (although my address and information should be hidden), everything i say here can be connected to me. i’m not gonna talk about the details of my sex life or tell secrets on my instance lol.
but all in all it‘s pretty fun and i mainly use my instance in my day to day life for memes and stuff
I’m doing it and I like it. But I switched to PieFed which is easier to maintain.
When setting up my own here, I was debating to go for PieFed because I like the underlying features - but having had no sysadmin experience before, I went with Lemmy due to better documentation. But I am thinking about switching - can you “migrate” your instance, or did you just set up a new PieFed one and abandon the old Lemmy one?
Yeah, no migration available, which is a potty but that would be quite difficult to do it right.
Sad, but, yeah, that is more than understandable, the whole database migration alone would be a massive headache to get right, I think.
I self host for just me but Lemmy can be resource intensive, especially if you mirror pictures.
How do you turn them off?
I do, mostly for my self but I do allow registrations. I’m generally the only user though.
The communities that I do have get a little trafic - but they are very NZ and niche
Does it make sense to host your own instance of lemmy for one user?
Not really lol, but if you think it will be fun then go for it
