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Would there be any benifit to host another instance? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Mirriad@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

There's always going to be people that want to be on a smaller Instance, because it's frankly an objectively superior experience unless you get unlucky with your admin. There's really no major advantages to being on a large Instance. That I know of anyway, and I'm on one.

So, running a smaller Instance is probably always going to soak up some demand, so long as you advertise it a little bit.

[-] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

One downside that I’ve run into is discovering communities. Your instance only gets updates from communities someone on that instance is subscribed to, so you’ll have to go to other instances to discover them.

[-] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 21 points 1 year ago

My instance uses a seeder script that'll do exactly that, but automated. It'll check the most popular communities on the most popular servers and use an account to subscribe to them.

Boom, /all feed populated.