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How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account? (lemmy.one)
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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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[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 12 points 1 year ago

I personally haven't had any issues with doing so! I run a few instances of different software in the Fediverse:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • Lemmy

Of them all, I found that Lemmy and Matrix were the easiest to "get into" due to the fact that its incredibly easy to subscribe to a remote community, and instantly be able to see posts from that community. Same principal with Matrix as well! I even went ahead and put up my Lemmy instance on a domain that wasn't directly tied to my name so that others could have an account as well (Whereas for example, I wouldn't really expect someone to want a @username:russ.network handle for Matrix, other than myself).