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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Rooty to c/[email protected]
 
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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tired of the problems of large instances? Join the small instances alliance! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or even better: host your own so you can be the reason the instance is down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Host my own? In this economy?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

But think of all the IT security you can ignore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't need to rent some big shot cloud hosting system. You can literally run it on a Raspberry Pi or a virtual machine on your existing computer. If it's just you on there, even that is overkill.

[โ€“] Im_old 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cries in selfhosted email server

[โ€“] Ricaz 6 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Neoncamouflage 7 points 1 year ago

It's bad enough self hosting a Discord bot and getting yelled at randomly when it goes down

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We have room for more over at https://thelemmy.club!

We even have built in Voyager at app.thelemmy.club - and MLMYM (an old.reddit clone) at old.thelemmy.club

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there an easy way to transfer subs to another account?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Perhaps this or this? I've not used either myself, but I've seen the first one mentioned a few times