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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.

[–] Kyoyeou 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I was asking myself a question, if you comment like you did here Is it saved in the server on which the original post is, or is it saved on your server?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe it is saved first on the instance you're signed up for, then gets pushed around the network using the Activity pub protocol. So it eventually ends up being stored across many instances of it has far enough reach.

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