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My fediverse use - I'm hosting everything myself - PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy (tube.jeena.net)
submitted 11 months ago by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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To really own your content, I think you need to host it yourself. The fediverse makes it possible.

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[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t it all just come crumbling down if every user spun up a server?

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 points 11 months ago

Probably, but we know that this is only a hypothetical question because in reality this will never happen.

[–] SubWoofer@catgirl.pub 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is that?

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

As I understand it, fediverse has a lot of syncing overhead (it takes a lot of bandwidth and processing to share content between all the servers). The more servers there are, the more overhead is used for syncing.

While lots of servers is good for resilience, and diversification of communities, going to the extent of every individual hosting a server seems like an overburdensome extreme.