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Does it make sense to host your own instance of lemmy for one user? (slrpnk.net)

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I’m asking in general but also in terms of privacy. Is it worse that you’re more easily connected to your real identity through owning the domain?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm doing it and I like it. But I switched to PieFed which is easier to maintain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When setting up my own here, I was debating to go for PieFed because I like the underlying features - but having had no sysadmin experience before, I went with Lemmy due to better documentation. But I am thinking about switching - can you "migrate" your instance, or did you just set up a new PieFed one and abandon the old Lemmy one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, no migration available, which is a potty but that would be quite difficult to do it right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Sad, but, yeah, that is more than understandable, the whole database migration alone would be a massive headache to get right, I think.