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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€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not the OP, but can you move your account to a private instance or is it not possible at the moment?

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

It's not possible at the moment. Lemmy devs acknowledged it was a widely requested feature but last I read, they were focused on maintaining the performance of Lemmy during the spike of users during the great Reddit migration.

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

Ah ok makes sense, thanks.

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