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Would there be any benifit to host another instance? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're happy to pay whatever it costs to host then there's no other disadvantage to this.

The only thing I can think of is if you somehow end up at odds with an admin of a big instance and they defederate your instance. Or perhaps in the future major instances decide to only federate with instances of a certain size, for some as of now unpredictable reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Really, if your instance is just for you and your account (maybe a few friends, family), and you're not running any communities on it (all your posts and comments are on other instances), there's really no reason anyone would defed you. Unless you're a dick.

I have to think that if your very small private instance was federated with a large public instance, your instance would pull down content from the public one. That's bandwidth, and that's costing the large instance some amount of money/performance. Because your small private instance isn't "giving back" a level of content that the large instance would want or need, that could be the unpredictable reason you mentioned.

Now, I don't see that being a real issue unless there are so many low-content instances that Large Instance reviews their usage and finds out that an unacceptably high portion of their bandwidth is being used by "leeches," and wants to control cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I predict spam bots. It's always spam bots.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could even run the instance from your phone or whatever device used to look at Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Has anyone done that and documented it? I know android phones are sort of linux, but still, does need some modifications.