I’m curious about this, I have a server that I used to use for a Minecraft server, but it has been shut off for a while.

What would be the downside of hosting your own instance? Maybe it would be automatically defederated from other instances?

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    2 years ago

    The main problems are the headaches you get while setting it up. Kbin is not in a state where you can just run a script and it works.

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      2 years ago

      Yea, I was looking at the documentation for creating your own instance. Obviously it’s not going to be a walk in the park, but I wasn’t sure if there was something like a check for a low user count instance or something that’s not quite so obvious to self-hosters.

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        2 years ago

        The main problem is that you have to do a lot learning by doing, because there are not clear instructions…
        Other than the setup I’d say there is no clear drawback to hosting it yourself. I guess its even better than hosting something like mastodon yourself, because the content you want to get is already grouped in communities and you don’t have the annoyingly long discovery phase one has when starting a mastodon server