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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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[โ€“] zephyr 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)
  • More private, if you're overly conscious about your IP being tracker by instance host
  • You own your data
  • You can experiment with alpha releases
  • You can customize everything. Default CSS, javascript, etc
  • You can't be censored (only defederated)
[โ€“] RedirectedPotato 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do I truly own my own data then? If I make a post, such as this, which is posted from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml, would my removal of the post on my instance remove it from lemmy.ml as well?

[โ€“] zephyr 4 points 1 year ago

You truly own you data in the sense that it's not in somebody else's hands, but once you decide to share it with other instances, you should assume it's public for everyone. That's just how the internet works.

[โ€“] ulu_mulu 2 points 1 year ago

If the instance your account is on decides to shutdown, you lose everything, your account and all your contributions, on your own instance you don't.

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