I am fairly new to Lemmy and was thinking of getting an account on one of the “big” servers to get the full experience, but then I figured I could do exactly the same thing as with my GoToSocial and other services: run my own instance.

I am wondering if this is an overkill or not. Any experience running your own small Lemmy instance? Are there better options that are compatible with Lemmy but lighter to run for this purpose?

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Also might be worth thinking about what else you are self hosting. Don’t want to self host all of your communication apps; that would be brittle.

    • Erick@piefed.erick.shEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Oh, I am running a bunch of things already, so adding one more to the stack is not a real problem for me. The only service I would think at least 100 times before even trying is email; yes, it is tempting to do it, but just thinking at all the ways that could go wrong gives me nightmares.