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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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I unironically how I think about it.
Thank you for your service
Tired of the problems of large instances? Join the small instances alliance! 😎
Or even better: host your own so you can be the reason the instance is down.
Host my own? In this economy?
But think of all the IT security you can ignore.
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.
cries in selfhosted email server
Never again..
It's bad enough self hosting a Discord bot and getting yelled at randomly when it goes down
We have room for more over at https://thelemmy.club!
We even have built in Voyager at app.thelemmy.club - and MLMYM (an old.reddit clone) at old.thelemmy.club
Is there an easy way to transfer subs to another account?
Perhaps this or this? I've not used either myself, but I've seen the first one mentioned a few times
It's like every half day at this point
Would it make sense to create my own instance just to host my account and avoid all maintenance and down times of instances?
I meaaaan. I’m sure the maintenance isn’t being done just for the fun of it. Presumably if you ran your own instance it would just be you doing the maintenance instead of somebody else.
Not to mention, Lemmy.world admins have said it's mostly been due to ddos attacks. What's to stop the people ddosing them to turn their sights on smaller instances?
What's to stop the people ddosing them to turn their sights on smaller instances?
I don't think they are doing it out of some deep-seated hate for Lenny.
I imagine they are script kiddies looking for attention and bringing down your instance with one or two users probably isn't on their radar or worth their time. I seriously doubt little "single-user" or even slightly larger instances will ever be targeted
probably it's just not worth it attacking smaller instances? lemmy.world is such a juicy target given how big it is.
I had the same thought, just so I could be a community of one and host just enough to create an account and port it over via federation
Memes here have been really good 😂🤣
Shit just works 😎
Lol you commented twice, I assume shit didn't work and you didn't see the first comment go through
Imma blame that on Connect 🤫
Shit just works 😎
Having an account on a downed is bad since if it's down it blocks your interactions everywhere. Log into another instance and use it. You still create content for that instance.
That's another big question for the fediverse: if there should be privacy oriented instancies to register, other than those you visit. One Mastodone one was SWATed by FBI, so it'd be an organic development to disperse even further.