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Would me self-hosting a personal instance make things worse for everyone else? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a domain name that I own but am not making use of and was thinking of setting up my own personal Lemmy instance, partly so I can have a Lemmy id and instance that I can completely control, partly so that I can contribute directly to my hosting cost, and partly because it might be fun to tinker with (or it might just end up being a pain; I'm still trying to figure out which is the case).

However, from this comment it sounds like, rather than contributing to horizontal scaling and easing the load on other servers, I might actually end up increasing the load on other servers by adding yet another server that the other servers have to talk to in order to keep my server updated on the latest comments and posts to which I am subscribed.

So given this, would self-hosting a personal instance actually make things worse for everyone else and thus be an irresponsible action at this time and/or for the foreseeable future? Because the last thing that I want to do is to inadvertently add a burden to the fediverse!

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[–] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 0 points 1 year ago

As what I understood, actually it makes things worse. This shouldn't be the case because the concept of fediverse itself is to have a lot of many instances communicating with each other.

The problem is the Lemmy is still a young project and we weren't expecting all this explosion in users. activityPub implementation doesn't scale well for now and so adding a new instance theoretically makes things worse.

But this is something that devs have as a high priority, in my opinion, because is very important to have instances correctly communicating with each other, otherwise the concept of federation falls.