I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it's almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is their a way to lock it down so only you can use it? I was thinking about hosting my own. But i was worried that others might start visiting it.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not idea, try asking in the "self hosting" community. The instance im in was created by the mods of the r/brasil subreddit and its works great (for me) because is not as popular as the bigger ones and is hosted locally in Brazil.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ironically, the largest self hosting community is on lemmy.world

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How does that work?

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[–] dill@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this from the alternate ending of titanic?

[–] Jemmy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

"That really sucks, lady!"

[–] chrisbit@cocte.au 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like. God, it's awful.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The soluition here is to use any other instance then the 3 big ones: lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and bewhaw.org Lemmy instances scale horribly, the more users the worse the performance.

See this piechart from a week ago, the top 3 have over 50% of the users:

[–] Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

sad.

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