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I'm in the process of upgrading my Plex server, once that's done I plan hosting my own Lemmy instance on the old server to test it out for personal use.
You absolutely don't need to be hosting any communities and can use it just for your own control over your access to the fediverse.
Yes, big instances are not ready to handle the traffic and could go down - see lemmy.ml
In my navigation of the fediverse the last few days I've noticed a few people running instances of mastodon and lemmy with just themselves or 1 or 2 other people etc.
If you into tinkering and selfhosting, why not :D Means you're in full control of what other instances you federate with/can see etc.
I host my own instance, but I like selfhosting as a hobby. I really love having all my account/login stuff on my own hardware and my own backups. If I break something, its just my own stuff that broken, no harm done to any other users. I don't really plan on hosting any of my own communities, just participating in others. I'm an avid seflhoster, and my setup is pretty exotic compared to the vast majority of hosters, but I got the whole thing working perfectly over a day. Much better than when I tried to get mastodon working. More power to more fediverse stuff though.
Pros: you [sort of] own your Fediverse identity; you can make any changes to your instance you want (if you know how to do it); you’re in control of whom you peer with.
Cons: maintenance burdens (especially if you make any changes); content discovery complexity; possibly slightly less privacy (as you’re the only user of the instance, whatever is visible about it can be directly attributed to your activity). All solvable, of course.
For me the benefit is uniformity (not sure if thats a word) i can have a matrix account, a mastodon account, a lemmy account, all sorts of fediverse accounts all under my own domain.
This comes next to the already mentioned benefits ofcourse :)
I run my own instance because I have the resources, I intend to create communities and it is much more private this way.
What are the privacy advantages of self hosting lemmy? as in what kind of data are we otherwise sharing when we use someone else's instance?
If I create a private community for all my family members it remains private while I selfhost. If I create it on someone else's server it ain't that private because the admin could be eavesdropping.