220

Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

posted
by
Avatar
AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world
in
Avatar
selfhosted@lemmy.world
187 comments
hidereport

Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

Sort:
HotTopControversialNewOld
You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
Avatar
jcg@halubilo.social
3 points

Personally, I went with Lemmy because it seems to be quite a bit further along in it’s development. It also doesn’t look like kbin’s developer is recruiting much outside help, if you look at the repos of the two projects on GitHub/Codeberg, Lemmy has tons of contributions from people while kbin is mostly just the one guy with a few commits here and there. Not to mention that Lemmy’s way less of a resource hog because it’s written in Rust whereas kbin is implemented in PHP. Also, as far as I know federation is still currently broken on kbin.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
ipkpjersi@lemmy.one
2 points
*

The reason why I’d consider kbin is because I almost think I might prefer the interface, also I’m more of a PHP developer myself so that is tempting in and of itself too lol

I may wait a little bit before trying out either one tbh and maybe I’ll give both of them a try.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Selfhosted

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

Create post

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we’re here to support and learn from one another. Insults won’t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

Community stats

  • 4.8K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.6K

    Posts

  • 81K

    Comments

Community moderators