Me, who uses a locally crafted free roam instance:
I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it’s almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.
Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.
Is their a way to lock it down so only you can use it? I was thinking about hosting my own. But i was worried that others might start visiting it.
Isn’t federation a two way contract? Or is it enabled by default on instances and only blacklisted?
Is there a solid how to / walk through for setting one of those up? Lemmy world is flailing hard and I want to jump to my own instance.
