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Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?

Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I'm interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?

Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?

Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?

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

Iโ€™ve been curious about this also but for a different reason. I assume all my posts and comments are hosted at the instance Iโ€™m subscribed to. Should that server go down away for any reason my account and all its data would be lost right? Iโ€™d rather be in control of keeping my own data safe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was an excellent post about this today that I saw. Essentially it's like this:

There is an original community, and then there are mirror copies.

So if you post a comment via your server to a community that is actually hosted on kbin.social for example, you are posting a comment to the mirror of that community (on your local instance), which then sends the comment out to the actual original community, which then federates your comment out to all instances that are mirroring that community.

[โ€“] ComradeMiao 2 points 1 year ago