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Pros outlined here:
growyourown.services/why-growi

Cons are:

-The costs (though these are surprisingly low)
-The longer period of building up your network (though you can avoid this by moving your existing account to your server)
-The moderation (though if it's a single user server this isn't an issue)

21 Jan 2023 at 23:58 | Open on social.growyourown.services
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Nyans

@homegrown @misc

If I am not mistaken, the global timeline is filled with posts from accounts that people on your instance follow.

This would also apply to the posts you see when you follow a hashtag, which are only the posts that appear in the global timeline.

With that said, my biggest concern with having a "personal instance" would be that you would be left with an uninspiring timeline, since all timelines are basically the same, or am I missing something?

#Mastodon #Hosting #Fediverse

22 Jan 2023 at 6:51 | Open on mastodon.nl
Eric Dannewitz

@secupriv @homegrown @misc

Yeah, you are missing that you can also search and follow hashtags, which is a great why to follow things. And if you self host or have a small instance, you can subscribe to a relay to help populate your feeds.

22 Jan 2023 at 6:54 | Open on musician.social
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