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Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don't want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You end up as the ultimate decider on what you federate with. If you join someone else’s community you might not agree with their administration or moderation decisions.

It’s a fun exercise in system administration, it taught me some new things. It got me interested in Rust as a programming language (not that you need to know that to run an instance - I was just tinkering w: source code)