The main benefit is being in total control of your experience on lemmy

If you’re on someone else’s server, you don’t really have any control of federation, and your instance admins could just decide to defederate some instance that you enjoy seeing content from without your say. Similarly you may want to defederate from an instance, but on a public server you’d have to appeal to the admins to do so for the entire server.

Other than that it’s mainly a “because it’s cool” thing

Has kbin added the ability to follow hashtags yet? That’s pretty much the only feature that I need to be able/willing to fully migrate my lemmy/mastadon

One day - social media will break up NSFW tags into actual useful warning tags - so we can mute porn without blocking movie spoilers or troubling news articles and shit like that

Only posts though - not comments. Frankly i find that the posts from problem instances are rarely as bad as their comments

The guy who wrote the lemmy software is the same guy who runs lemmygrad. All of lemmy is “tankie bullshit”. I suggest you go back to reddit to be safe from us.

TIL that open source software is inextricably tied to it’s creators political beliefs…

Sorry bud, but despite tankies on this site being really fucking loud and argumentative, you’re drastically outnumbered by newer members who have no relation to lemmygrad or other tanky instances.

No fediverse social media site “belongs” to it’s creator or their beliefs, that’s literally the whole point. If you want a site where it’s creators are able to enforce their beliefs on their users, maybe you should go back to traditional social media

Ugh - that’s really frustrating especially since they must know this isn’t what everyone actually wants. Let us have personal defederation - it would solve the whole defederation controversy in one stroke. There would no longer be any reason for instances to make such huge decisions on behalf of all it’s users, and individuals can choose to disengage with toxic communities on their own

How’d you find the setup process for self hosting? I’ve got half a mind to do the same. I’ve already got self hosted Audiobook Shelf and home assistant servers

FUCK u/Spez!

Hey now, /u/spez is a hero - without him, Lemmy would never have taken off like it has lol