dichtbringerJun 15, 2023

Hosting an instance just for yourself?

Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourseelf and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?...

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Hosting an instance just for yourself? - asklemmy - kbin.social

Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?...

Show threadBanda
I’ve been curious about this also but for a different reason. I assume all my posts and comments are hosted at the instance I’m subscribed to. Should that server go down away for any reason my account and all its data would be lost right? I’d rather be in control of keeping my own data safe.
Jun 15, 2023 at 11:30amWeb
Show threadasjmcguireJun 15, 2023

There was an excellent post about this today that I saw. Essentially it's like this:

There is an original community, and then there are mirror copies.

So if you post a comment via your server to a community that is actually hosted on kbin.social for example, you are posting a comment to the mirror of that community (on your local instance), which then sends the comment out to the actual original community, which then federates your comment out to all instances that are mirroring that community.