I’m thinking about deploying my own instance where I’d be the only user and most probable I won’t have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.
What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?
Personally I think it’s a great idea. I run my own instance even though I’m the only user and have no communities.
Pros:
Moderation: Your own moderation capabilities. It’s your choice what you see or don’t see.
Content longevity: You can do your own backups and don’t have to worry about loosing content when another instance disappears.
Performance: Generally speaking you’ll have better performance. You won’t have to worry about an influx of new users taking the instance down due to overloads.
Cons:
Domain: You need your own domain, which is an ongoing cost.
Hosting: Like the domain, you need to pay for hosting to run Lemmy. You could try running it at home, but I would not recommend it.
Management: Depending on how you setup Lemmy, there will probably be ongoing maintenance work. It might not be worth the hassle when you can just use a third party instance and let them deal with it.
Ultimately it’s up to you.
I agree. Single person instances are really good for the health of the fediverse. If people can, and want that level of control, they should.
RE: cost. I’m doing a digital ocean droplet for $6 month which seems plenty for running Lemmy. So that’s $72 a year, plus maybe $20 for a domain name. So generally speaking if you can budget about $10 a month for your social media habit it can be done.
I’m also running a $12 DO droplet (for Akkoma microblogging/“twitter” software) so my total costs are a little higher, but still i find its a reasonable trade off for my habits.