Lemmy has many nearly abandoned instances. Over the entire period of its existence - several posts. Shouldn’t the instance owner post content to attract users?

  • Max-P
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    391 year ago

    My instance exists for me and my friends to use. It’s not meant to attract anybody, it’s meant to serve me.

    It costs me nothing and I’m permanently in control of my data, and it’ll live however long I want it to live, it updates when I decide I want to update it, if I want features I can just patch them in. When I make a PR, it goes on my instance first to try it out properly. I can post 10GB files from my instance if I want to, I’m the one that will pay for the bandwidth in the end.

    I bet if you look at the profile of the admin of those “abandoned” instances, you’ll find they’re active on Lemmy. They just have their own private instance just for themselves.

    Doesn’t matter if lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or beehaw.org goes down: I still got all the content and they’ll eventually federate out when they come back up.

      • Max-P
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        131 year ago

        Guess I should have said it cost me nothing extra because I already own the server.

        Although Oracle’s free tier exists.

          • Danileonis
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            21 year ago

            I’m also interested to learn self-hosting, it’s the future of internet imho.

              • Danileonis
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                11 year ago

                If it’s only for your files you can already do that without hosts, using Syncthing!

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  I’m using that to sync my Zettelkasten and school notes between my laptops and phone, it’s pretty nifty.