Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was asking myself a question, if you comment like you did here Is it saved in the server on which the original post is, or is it saved on your server?

    • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
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      1 year ago

      Kind of both. His server has a mirror of the community. When he comments it gets saved on his server and the his server communicates with the original server. In turn the original server also communicates his comment with other federated servers.

      • pzza@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If data is migrated from server to server, as the community grows in size, the data to be maintained on each server also grows in size? Also i’ve seen some servers allow the creation of new users/communities, but some don’t… whats the point of that if the data is just replicated anyway?