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Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance? (friendica.ginestes.es)

submitted 2 days ago by abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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The following was asked on a #Mastodon forum on #Reddit - I replied and a sort of converation started. I felt that it wa better to have the discussion where others with valuable inside could chip in so I have- with the OP's permission posted the following:

For years I have the same question:

Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance or any other fediverse instance?

Many admins say it is a lot of work and they put a lot of effort, money and energy in it. Some even close their instance after few years, because it is just too much.

After the new political development in the USA, the fediverse got a new wave of interested people from all over the world, but the question stays.

In my opinion it makes only sense if you already have a community, like, if you're an influencer or part of an NGO or similar projects with several people, who will support you creating and maintaining it with money and own time.

What do you think and do you own an instance or work on one?

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[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you don't plan on supporting this for at least a few years I would say no.

If you don't expect to have a decent local userbase I would say no (local in the sense of a common interest, e.g. it might be useful to host an instance for all members of even a small company if you expect a decent amount of posts).

If it's just you and your family (let's be honest: it's just you) I would say no.

The fediverse can federate, but if everyone is using their own server it's just a fancy peer to peer network.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 2 days ago

@EarMaster I'm going to say that if you are doing it for wider family that might still be worth it (given that you can get a private stream and your network feed might be more relevant for other family members - But then it is a case of bringing your family along with you.. If you are doing other stuff for them (email, file sharing , device management - Then maybe an ActivityPub server becomes a bit of an addon