We must endure so that future generations may benefit!
Tired of the problems of large instances? Join the small instances alliance! 😎
Or even better: host your own so you can be the reason the instance is down.
It’s bad enough self hosting a Discord bot and getting yelled at randomly when it goes down
Host my own? In this economy?
But think of all the IT security you can ignore.
You don’t need to rent some big shot cloud hosting system. You can literally run it on a Raspberry Pi or a virtual machine on your existing computer. If it’s just you on there, even that is overkill.
cries in selfhosted email server
Never again…
Would it make sense to create my own instance just to host my account and avoid all maintenance and down times of instances?
I meaaaan. I’m sure the maintenance isn’t being done just for the fun of it. Presumably if you ran your own instance it would just be you doing the maintenance instead of somebody else.