Comment on Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance?
fishynoob@infosec.pub 2 days ago
The reason to host your own instances is altruism. You help out the community with decentralisation and also absorb some of the bandwidth and storage costs from other instances. This is necessary for the Fediverse to survive.
Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site 1 day ago
But another instance also increases the required bandwidth and data usage for all other federated instances
fishynoob@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yes but if your instance holds a decent population then it’s a net benefit
pescetarian@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
😲