this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Why is that?
As I understand it, fediverse has a lot of syncing overhead (it takes a lot of bandwidth and processing to share content between all the servers). The more servers there are, the more overhead is used for syncing.
While lots of servers is good for resilience, and diversification of communities, going to the extent of every individual hosting a server seems like an overburdensome extreme.
It's also asking way too fucking much of the average person. Running multiple fediverse instances is basically a hobby and I barely have time for the hobbies I already have (and actually enjoy). It also is probably at least $100-200/year extra financial commitment in hosting and I'm being conservative on that number.
I'll stick to using existing instances, tyvm
I have not seen anyone in this thread ask for people to run their individual instance, but I do get your point
Edit: I know how costly and bothersome it is, I host my fair share of stuff, specifically this Lemmy instance too
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And hosting your own content is just not a great option for most. That's all I'm saying.
oh alright! didn't notice that, thanks for making me notice :3