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·
    2 years 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/linux@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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

    • JetpackJackson@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

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

      • Triage8420@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years 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.