How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account?
How much of a good idea is to have my own instance just to have my account?
I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.
What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?
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I think a con that I’m realizing (running my own instance) is I’m pretty much posting into the void until other instances federate with me. My understanding is I cannot post to a community on an instance where I do not have an account.
You can actually, it's what I'm doing right now. You just need to initially add the instance through the search bar. Obviously they could always have a whitelist, or remove the connection, but lemmy.ml doesn't seem to do that right now.
Interesting. Commenting has been fine but I didn’t see an option to create a new post to a remote community. I’ll play with it some more!
@knova You have to search for the remote community and subscribe to it. It will then appear in the list of communities you can choose from when you are composing a new post
Yes. I see now it’s possible from the post creator. I had no problem subscribing to remote communities, but I did not initially see them in my post creation form. I went back and double checked and of course they were there the entire time 😅