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How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by pe1uca@lemmy.one to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a con that I’m realizing (running my own instance) is I’m pretty much posting into the void until other instances federate with me. My understanding is I cannot post to a community on an instance where I do not have an account.

[–] count0rlok@orava.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can actually, it's what I'm doing right now. You just need to initially add the instance through the search bar. Obviously they could always have a whitelist, or remove the connection, but lemmy.ml doesn't seem to do that right now.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Commenting has been fine but I didn’t see an option to create a new post to a remote community. I’ll play with it some more!

[–] Ada@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@knova You have to search for the remote community and subscribe to it. It will then appear in the list of communities you can choose from when you are composing a new post

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