Lemmy

12812 readers

50 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml

How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by pe1uca@lemmy.one to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Personally I think it's a great idea. I run my own instance even though I'm the only user and have no communities.

Pros:

Moderation: Your own moderation capabilities. It's your choice what you see or don't see.

Content longevity: You can do your own backups and don't have to worry about loosing content when another instance disappears.

Performance: Generally speaking you'll have better performance. You won't have to worry about an influx of new users taking the instance down due to overloads.

Cons:

Domain: You need your own domain, which is an ongoing cost.

Hosting: Like the domain, you need to pay for hosting to run Lemmy. You could try running it at home, but I would not recommend it.

Management: Depending on how you setup Lemmy, there will probably be ongoing maintenance work. It might not be worth the hassle when you can just use a third party instance and let them deal with it.

Ultimately it's up to you.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 1 points 2 years ago

RE: cost. I’m doing a digital ocean droplet for $6 month which seems plenty for running Lemmy. So that’s $72 a year, plus maybe $20 for a domain name. So generally speaking if you can budget about $10 a month for your social media habit it can be done.

I’m also running a $12 DO droplet (for Akkoma microblogging/“twitter” software) so my total costs are a little higher, but still i find its a reasonable trade off for my habits.