Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 176 points –

Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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I run my own instance because I have the resources, I intend to create communities and it is much more private this way.

What are the privacy advantages of self hosting lemmy? as in what kind of data are we otherwise sharing when we use someone else's instance?

If I create a private community for all my family members it remains private while I selfhost. If I create it on someone else's server it ain't that private because the admin could be eavesdropping.