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Seems like world deleted the Threads discussion post
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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I have switched instances a lot. I don't like the idea of other people curating my feed.
I made my own instance for this reason.
I have considered it.
Is it expensive? Considering doing it myself
I had a spare computer that I installed Linux on a while back, but wasn't using it for much at the time. If set up like that, all you would pay for is the electricity, which is very low if you're only running Lemmy, probably only a couple of US dollars a month. You could probably run it on a raspberry pi, tbh.
Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it's free for me.
The dream. I want to do this too when I buy my house, but living in northern Scandinavia makes it hard to run off solar during the winter.
I live relatively close to the equator (Texas), so it's actually better for me in the winter because I don't need to run the AC.
Texas?! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down!
Because the panels absorb/reflect the light? Or how does that work?
Not sure what you mean, but I just meant that because I use about a quarter of the electricity in the winter while still generating about 90% as much electricity, I end up selling a ton of electricity back to the grid, building up credits that I can use for cloudy days in the spring.
Ah okay, I get you. That's an excellent system.
because it's not as hot in the winter
Thanks, I appreciate the insight 😊 you’re setup sounds very well thought out and I respect it 🍻
This is actually detrimental to the network unless you're hosting a lot of other users. If it's just you then you're adding the federation load of an entire server just for your own personal use. Now all your subscriptions are a separate server pull on all the instances you subscribe to. Instead of using an existing instance that is already pulling
I did for awhile. For me, it wasnt worth the effort. Hot tip: go ahead and switch to blob storage for pictrs or your hosting fees are gonna get expensive quick.
What instance are you on? Voyager doesn’t even show me!
There are probably better instances out there, but I'm on lemmy.dbzer0.com at the moment.
Same! Maybe that’s why it doesn’t show me. It’s awesome.
In Voyager, you can toggle showing users’ instances in Settings > Appearance.
Thank you muchly, but I actually have that on! It still doesn’t show their instance, maybe because they’re on the same one as me.
I'll leave fediverse, so many instances in the fediverse are still federated with Threads
https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v2
Threads doesn't support federation currently, so nobody is federated with Threads at all.