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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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Wouldn't it still be a bit less taxing even with only one user? If I'm not mistaken then your instance only initially requests a community/post/comment from another instance when you specifically search for it. After that your server gets updates through activities pushed by the other instance. So if you refresh a post multiple times those requests only go to your instance. It somewhat acts like a cache, while the other instance can push activities at it's own pace instead of being hammered with requests. Of course multiple users per instance would still be better.

[-] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 years ago

It acts like a cache, yes, but now the other instance has to send a push to keep every user's instance updated, whereas if there were only a few instances with lots of users only a few instances needed to get updated.

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