Cows Look Like Maps to ELI5@kbin.social · edit-21 year agoWhat are some good reasons a person might want to host their own Lemmy server?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some good reasons a person might want to host their own Lemmy server?Cows Look Like Maps to ELI5@kbin.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareTeaHands@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoRandom ideas off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are more: they believe in the platform and know they have the skills to help it grow they’re tech enthusiasts and it’s basically hobby time general curiosity about how it all works from the admin side, some people love to learn new stuff spotted a gap in the market for an instance around a particular theme they want a solo / friends and family only instance to avoid defederation issues and generally curate the feed they want control over their own data and experience they happen to own the most perfect domain name and just need something to do with it
Random ideas off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are more: