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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I have a personal Lemmy instance, and a personal Calckey instance. Still debating on creating a personal PixelFed instance, and maybe even a public kbin instance.
Anyone who wants to host a fediverse website owns the fediverse. It belongs to any of us and all of us.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by personal instance? Only you use it? I'm wondering what reasons someone would have a personal instance. Or maybe like a group for friends only?
There's a variety of reasons for this depending on the person, but common ones I've read are along the lines of curiosity & enjoying experimenting with the software, easier to back up their own data, having full control over their instance & so not having to keep up with whether your admins have defederated from another instance while you were away, and so on.
My Lemmy instance acts as a private forum for people I've met through a local recreational sports league. I use it to remind people of games and social events.
My Calckey server is just me. I set it up because I wanted to know how to do it, and now I'm my own admin and moderator. It's a good time.
If you look in the aftermath of the Beehaw defederation, you'll see a bunch of people whining about "rogue admins". One option for those folks is to just be their own.