I want to help fediverse by hosting own instance. I dont have plans to build community, it will be for caching reasons. Does it make any sense?

For example, if I run loop instance, I will reshare stories through my instance, the content will be downloaded from my node, not the parent one. Am I right?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’d like to host micro-instances for 1-2 subs for software: XYZApp-news and XYZApp-help or so, on the equivalent of a spur or leaf node.

    But aPub seems to need M:M comms and so it needs to be out in the world instead of hidden behind an aPub proxy. True?

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I host my own Lemmy instance. Single user. I do it for owning my posts and comments, and to keep memory.

    Does that help the fediverse? I am not so sure. Probably many smallish instances are better than a lot of individual instances or a few big ones.

      • PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I may have to start doing that too. I don’t like knowing that if an instance I’m on get mad at me, they can just delete all my stuff.