Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • Album@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s only less taxing if it’s multiple ppl on an instance.

    If every solo user spun up an instance just for themselves there wouldn’t be a benefit over all those users just signing up directly to an existing instance.

    Eg 5 users on instance b trying to access instance a Is better then 5 users each with their own instance trying to access instance a.

    • thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social
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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t it still be a bit less taxing even with only one user? If I’m not mistaken then your instance only initially requests a community/post/comment from another instance when you specifically search for it. After that your server gets updates through activities pushed by the other instance. So if you refresh a post multiple times those requests only go to your instance. It somewhat acts like a cache, while the other instance can push activities at it’s own pace instead of being hammered with requests. Of course multiple users per instance would still be better.