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What are the incentives for hosting a Lemmy instance?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I tried setting up an instance for my personal use today out of curiosity. So far the most notable personal benefits have been much more responsive site and easier time curating what I seeon my feed. The latter is easy enough since my feed only includes posts from communities people on my instance have subscribed to... which is also quite a downside since I'm the only one on the instance...
Oh and I'm able to federate with whomever I want, compared to if I were on lemmy.world, I couldn't see posts from beehaw.org and vice versa. I'll also sleep soundly knowing that the stupid pictures I'll be uploading (too lazy to upload them on external site) won't be filling up someone else's precious servers.
How much ballache was it to set up? Docker compose up or much fucking about?
It was... a project. I'm guessing if one has more experience in hosting it would be easier to figure out. I kept running into error after error, but eventually after spending most of the day on it I did somehow get it working... for now.
After all that I open Lemmy and see a post about easy deploy (linked by squid in response to your comment)... So I decided to give it a try and instance was up in minutes without any errors or issues. That was both very nice and very painful to see!