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Legal considerations of self-hosting Lemmy instance
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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What's the benefit of doing this apart from a technical challenge and fun? Such a server wouldn't support the network in any way, right?
Well, as you mentioned before it's to enjoy the "technical aspect", which could be many reasons. For one, if the instance you signed up on shuts down there goes your account with it. I feel better self-hosting because I am in control of when/if it shuts down.
I’ve actually been playing with this idea myself! Is it hard to set up/manage?
It was super easy. I just edited the config file in the Ansible playbook and needed to edit the certbot task because I use Cloudflare but other than that it was a breeze.