I’ve heard a few people on here are starting their own personal instances so they can federate independently with different instances without relying on a larger, third-party instance. If I wanted to do this, would I need to own an actual server, separate from my PC?

  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    eh, I used to host a minecraft server on my main rig back in the day and it’s just not worth introducing that kind of instability onto your daily driver.

    pay the ~$10/mo to set up your own instance on a VM somewhere, you’ll have a better experience.

  • Kleysley@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    24/7 online, yeah pretty much. There are people that host instances at home but they most likely already have a small homeserver setup.

  • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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    1 year ago

    If you want to make it the easy way, yes. If you can handle using Linux as your sole daily driver system (or can manage to configure a virtual machine to run on boot over Windows while opening all the required ports in both Windows and the VM): not necessarily

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    1 year ago

    You mean to only use this instance yourself, for you alone?

    That’s an interesting idea, and I have not found clear answers or downsides.

    If you don’t let others join, and do not host any communities yourself, why not?