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Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RedirectedPotato@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] zephyr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

            
              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)

[–] JetpackJackson@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the OP, but can you move your account to a private instance or is it not possible at the moment?

[–] Triage8420@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.