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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Tired of the problems of large instances? Join the small instances alliance! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or even better: host your own so you can be the reason the instance is down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Host my own? In this economy?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

But think of all the IT security you can ignore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't need to rent some big shot cloud hosting system. You can literally run it on a Raspberry Pi or a virtual machine on your existing computer. If it's just you on there, even that is overkill.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cries in selfhosted email server

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's bad enough self hosting a Discord bot and getting yelled at randomly when it goes down

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