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Hosting an instance just for yourself? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?

Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I'm interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?

Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?

Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been thinking the same. Going to look up some guides later on to see how much of a hassle it would be.

I think when I looked at doing it with Mastodon, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze for a single user (this was months ago so might be different now) but Lemmy might be better suited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does it require some programming knowledge or is it litrerally copypaste?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I like about kbin, it does both. When it's a bit further along in development, I'll probably look into hosting my own instance of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am interested in this as well. If you do find any decent guides I would love a link, and I can do the same if I find anything.