Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?
Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I’m interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?
Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?
Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?
But if you are pulling all the data to your instance by subscribing, wouldn’t this actually alleviate some of the load on the original instance? Obviously not as much as if you were hosting the content yourself, but still moreso than if you were directly interfacing with their instance?
Or am I completely wrong there. I don’t have a firm grasp of how content stored/cached between instances.
Your server would pull all the (text) content, no matter if you personally view it or not.
Which is fine for public servers, because they might have dozens, hundreds or even thousands of users then looking at that content (or at least a large part of it).
If you are the only person to use your server then you pretty much pull all the content just for yourself, putting more strain on the network than a normal user. So it definitely would be a little selfish, but in the grand scope of things it doesn’t really matter (as there won’t be a ton of users actually creating their private servers).