Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy?
Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy?
Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don't want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?
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- More private, if you're overly conscious about your IP being tracker by instance host
- You own your data
- You can experiment with alpha releases
- You can customize everything. Default CSS, javascript, etc
- You can't be censored (only defederated)
You can customize everything. Default CSS, javascript, etc
I use a browser extension to modify CSS client side
You can't be censored (only defederated)
The law can censor you (although you could put a Lemmy instance on i2p)
Everything else you said is right
Are there turnkey solutions or extensions that theme Lenny in whole or in part or are you rolling your own? I’m definitely interested in modifying the look of the site a bit. Mostly I find it overly narrow.
Not the OP, but can you move your account to a private instance or is it not possible at the moment?
It's not possible at the moment. Lemmy devs acknowledged it was a widely requested feature but last I read, they were focused on maintaining the performance of Lemmy during the spike of users during the great Reddit migration.
Ah ok makes sense, thanks.
Not yet, that's (open) issue #1985: Moving user profile to a new instance.
The devs also explicitly mentioned this request in their statement:
we are seeing lots of requests to implement major new features, such as migration between instances, or combining similar communities. As described above, we are completely overloaded with work, and definitely won’t have time to implement these in the near future. If there is a feature you want to see implemented, you will likely need to work on it yourself, or find someone who can.
For now, you can create another account on another instance and use that instead (or both), or just peek how the experience might be.
Ah ok, I might try making a second account at some point, not yet though.
You truly own you data in the sense that it's not in somebody else's hands, but once you decide to share it with other instances, you should assume it's public for everyone. That's just how the internet works.
If the instance your account is on decides to shutdown, you lose everything, your account and all your contributions, on your own instance you don't.