I’m reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service).

This basically shuts my idea down, because I wanted to simply host my account myself and browse all of Lemmy as I please.

So is everyone hosting individual instances dealing with them being public? is there a workaround to avoid having a public service that anyone can see?

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.meEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Personally the load on the major servers by having one more instance that subscribes to everything is why I think people should back off from creating more than the 1500 instances Lemmy network already has.

    Unless you use those anti-social seeding apps, you probably won’t subscribe to everything. My instance is subscribed to exactly the communities I want.

    And Lemmy is not mature/resilient enough for me to want to invest my time into some random instance.