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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

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Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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Sure.

I run my own instance at a cloud provider, and thus have monthly expenses I wouldn’t normally incur, if I were using a public instance.

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