this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I'm about to self host, sounds like a great move towards data privacy and ownership.
Nope. Everything you do is sent to all other instances. If you upvote your instance sends that upvote to the instance where the community lives and that instance broadcasts your vote to alle instances that subscribe to that community. Every instance operator can see the upvotes.
Well then nevermind! I need to go read about activity pub protocol.
At least your password hash not accessible by anyone but you.. and your dm is also only accessible by your recipient and his/her admin... 😅
Would be awesome if you could just install an application onto your machine to be self hosted from
I mean, you can, that's literally the definition of self hosting.
While you're 100% correct Lemmy would feel pretty slow running on your normal computer unless you keep it online and powered on 24/7. Since Lemmy fetches new content continuously and being offline causes a big backlog which will take time to process. It also presents a few extra challenges since you need a domain and cert and a home static IP isn't super common which means you need dynamic dns and have to set that up. Any restart where you get a new IP will be even slower since you need your updated A host record to propagate before your Lemmy instance can fetch the backlog. Those issues aside though you could absolutely just run it like any dockerized application on your normal computer.
If your lemmy goes offline- there is a good chance it WONT catch-up.
Servers only retry sending content so many times. ActivityPub PUSHES, rather then pulls mostly.