I want to help fediverse by hosting own instance. I dont have plans to build community, it will be for caching reasons. Does it make any sense?
For example, if I run loop instance, I will reshare stories through my instance, the content will be downloaded from my node, not the parent one. Am I right?
I host my own Lemmy instance. Single user. I do it for owning my posts and comments, and to keep memory.
Does that help the fediverse? I am not so sure. Probably many smallish instances are better than a lot of individual instances or a few big ones.
Hosting my own as well as of a couple weeks ago. It’s been an adventure getting things to work right, but it’s nice owning my data.
I may have to start doing that too. I don’t like knowing that if an instance I’m on get mad at me, they can just delete all my stuff.