Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I have experienced the same with mastodon and pixelfed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't have this problem with Mastodon, but totally had it with Pixelfed. I don't think Pixelfed, at least at that time, supported relays. I scraped around pixelfed.social to find people to follow because I had an account there. It didn't seem possible at the time to see profiles on public servers, without having an account, so it was hard finding people. It was something I was used to do doing on Mastodon. In the end, I didn't have a positive experience running my own Pixelfed instance, and just decided to use pixelfed.social.

    I do follow the developer and he's been making a lot of great progress. I've got the mobile app, and it's quite decent.

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