Does it make sense to host your own instance of lemmy for one user?
Not really lol, but if you think it will be fun then go for it
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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I did it for awhile but didn't want to deal with the CSAM. Shut it down after a few weeks.
Huh?
When you host your own Lemmy instance that means every server you federate with is going to copy its data including images to your server. That means that if you federate with someone who is poorly moderated, you can end up hosting CSAM yourself. You need to be prepared to deal with that problem.
That sounds insanely worrisome… would I good work around be to stop image caching?
There are domains you can register privately, if that's a concern.
The main advantage is not having an admin block you from talking to certain people by defederating the instance they use.
But the admin can defederate from your instance? Then you do not see any content anymore from theirs and they don't see you. But maybe I misunderstood you.
Parent comment is on mander.xyz. You are on dbzer0.com. The admins for either instance can prevent your account from interacting with the other.
If you start lemmy.ddash.com, the other admin can still block you, but you are the admin of your own instance. You are the second admin.
I think you’re right.
That does sound like a serious advantage :)
The blocking part seems more rare for individual instances
i am basically the only user of my instance. it's slow and i have to think about the fact that it's not very private at all (although my address and information should be hidden), everything i say here can be connected to me. i'm not gonna talk about the details of my sex life or tell secrets on my instance lol.
but all in all it‘s pretty fun and i mainly use my instance in my day to day life for memes and stuff
I'm doing it and I like it. But I switched to PieFed which is easier to maintain.
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?
Yeah, no migration available, which is a potty but that would be quite difficult to do it right.
Sad, but, yeah, that is more than understandable, the whole database migration alone would be a massive headache to get right, I think.
I self host for just me but Lemmy can be resource intensive, especially if you mirror pictures.
I do, mostly for my self but I do allow registrations. I'm generally the only user though.
The communities that I do have get a little trafic - but they are very NZ and niche