Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • kring@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    If you host your own, do you need to establish federation with all other instances or only with the ones you want to use communities from?

    If I only federate with lemmy.world, would I be able to see comments on /c/[email protected] on my instance made by a user from lemmy.ml?

    Would a user that reads /c/[email protected] on lemmy.ml see my comments, if I only federate with lemmy.world?

    • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago
      • only the ones that host communities you subscribe to, in fact you can specifically whitelist certain instances
      • yes, comments and posts made from other instances are forwarded on to subscribers
      • yes, for the same reason