Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

  • @zephyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•1 year ago
    • 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)
    • gun/linuxEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You can customize everything. Default CSS, javascript, etc

      I use a browser extension to modify CSS client side

      You can’t be censored (only defederated)

      The law can censor you (although you could put a Lemmy instance on i2p)

      Everything else you said is right

      • @Triage8420@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4•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.