I’m thinking about deploying my own instance where I’d be the only user and most probable I won’t have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?

  • anji
    12•11 months ago

    This is exactly what I have been doing. I enjoy this way of interacting with Fedi.

    Pros:

    • No reliance on the charity of others.
    • Refresh as many times as you want without worrying about server load.
    • Decide exactly which apps to host, and how they look and feel.

    Cons:

    • Hosting costs money/time.
    • Interacting with remote instances is sometimes a little more work as you have to copy URLs and paste them in your search, and you’re less likely to have already fetched content because of other users subscribing to these remote instances.

    Generally interacting with other instances works just fine. Especially on Mastodon I hardly ever notice I’m on a single user instance. Lemmy because of its different style of application (e.g. it’s more common to link to posts) presents empty posts a bit more often but I hope a bit more proactive fetching of remote content can be added at some point.

    Hosting your own instances may not be for everyone but it is for me, and I can recommend it.

    • @[email protected]OP
      6•11 months ago

      Yeah, what I was also thinking is if for some reason the instance decides to close then I’d lose my posts and comments.
      I’ll give it a try, I have some free time and space on my server xD