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submitted 1 year ago by NBCooks to c/[email protected]

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What are the pros and cons? For someone who has zero IT background so ELI5.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Besides what everyone said… you are the boss. You control what can and can’t be done.

Eg. Lemmy.ml decided that users can’t create communities anymore on that instance. Easily solvable but a limitation to that instance.

If you own the instance, you decide what can be done and what not.