I’m reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service).
This basically shuts my idea down, because I wanted to simply host my account myself and browse all of Lemmy as I please.
So is everyone hosting individual instances dealing with them being public? is there a workaround to avoid having a public service that anyone can see?
What is your definition of private?
You can disable registration (so you’re the only user and thus no one other than you can subscribe anything). You can simply not create communities on your instance (and thus no one can post anything). You can federate per normal and still browse anywhere you’d please.
Would that achieve what you’re looking for?
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