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Does lemmy.world really have 19000 users already?
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Hello 👋 new to fediverse - what are the benefits of running your own and connecting in to these communities, compared to just making an account on an instance that already exists?
I imagine if you run your own, you don't lose access to your account compared to if, say, your account is in lemmy.world and it goes down. Is there more to it?
That's pretty much it for me. There's a lot of complexity in hosting that you don't have to do if you use someone else's instance. There's a risk that their server goes down, but most people who start big servers know what they're doing.
Its also advantageous to join the instance you want to interact most in. Interacting across instances is possible but still a little buggy. It's harder to find communities, and once you do, sometimes posts don't load.
In addition to that,
There’s more, but I think that’s a good enough list for now. Have a nice day!