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Burn out on Lemmy? (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

In the last week I have seen solar punk go down and aussie.zone owner talk about stepping away.

I've not seen two places down at once that has made it to my feed in the last 3 years.

Is the self hosting aspect of lemmy a detriment to the entire environment? Admins getting burnt out or the costs becoming too high is absolutely an issue.

I know this is kind of rambling but what would happen to Lemmy if the major hosters all went down, and we all spun up our own personal services?

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[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why would anyone who wasn't delusionally idealistic want to provide that service?

Do you really want to spend hours of your life per day trying to prevent people from spamming their insane propaganda to your instance and endlessly being harassed and doxxed by internet strangers because you blocked them from posting pedophilia and other illegal and violent content?

Self hosting is great for a small private community, not so much for something that is akin to public infrastructure, let alone the type of infrastructure that attracts the type of nutjobs that make up most prolific users in fediverse.

[-] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

you have a point BUT this (Activity Pub) should be the basis for national governments to host, instead they use X, Whatsapp , Facebook and then bitch when the short arm of US political and billionare interference revahes in and pinchs their taint.

Mastodon and Lemmy can easily be done that way and be an official channels for governments to use and encourage their citizens and self hosters can as well

[-] zoloftt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I think you've come off a bit rude but I think your point is the best one that's been posted.

[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

nah. its totally accurate.

there's a lotta nutjobs here......

heck, its every one of us! we all had to come from our mom and dad at some point lolololol

this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2026
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