What are the pros and cons? For someone who has zero IT background so ELI5.

  • immortaly007
    3·
    1 year ago

    From what I understand:

    Pros of hosting your own instance:

    • control over your data (privacy)
    • performance (your instance is probably less busy/faster than lemmy.world, because it has to handle less people, so things load faster)
    • it cool

    Cons of hosting your own instance:

    • maintenance
    • federation cost increases for the network (i.e. All instances that host communities you are subscribed to (i.e. Lemmy.world), now need to send (federation) updates to your new instance). Note that as more people start using your instance, it is better for the network.
    • you have to have a server running somewhere, which costs money’s.
    • you need a max 20 character domain name.
    • baduhai@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      you need a max 20 character domain name

      Sounds kinda arbitrary, what’s the reason for this?

      • immortaly007
        1·
        1 year ago

        I remember reading that somewhere, but now I can’t find it back… May or may not be true