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Downsides of self hosting fediverse from homelab / locally? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I am wanting to self host a fediverse instance. I don't hope to make it big. Hoping for 200 users at most, and I won't advertise it heavily so it'll probably be a while before it gets there.

Is it a bad idea to host something like this on local hardware at home? I have a lot of local-only self hosted services, and I wouldn't want those to be compromised.

But my biggest fear is overloading my network. I already don't get the fastest signal in some parts of my house, and I am worried the extra traffic might put more pressure on the network.

What are your thoughts on hosting local? Should I just avoid the headache and host on public instance?

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[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Your biggest fear should be something like the CSAM attack from a few months ago. I doubt you have tens of thousands to spend on a lawyer.

That's why I killed my instance.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

You could just disable pict-rs, I believe.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did that instance have public registration? What speaks against having it for private (family) use only, as a gateway to the public instances?

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

Public registration has nothing to do with federation. My instance required admin approval for all new registrations. Illegal content is much more likely to come through federation than from inside.

IMHO, the few reasons to host your own instance largely disappeared with 0.19 and the risks were never worth the rewards to run a tiny instance. Things are likely to continue improving with future releases. Which is why sdf.org became my main.