If you do this, you will need some extra space because the database will grow, but I think it solves one of the (largest) downsides of running your own instance, namely discovering other communities.
Nice! Just me on my instance too. The only downside I've found so far is that I have to discover new communities in my own since there is no one else to populate "All".
Small price to pay to have control over my instance though.
Good on you for standing up your own instance. It's certainly nothing to shake a stick at and you're coming in at the right time when Lemmy just got a big performance boost in v0.18.3 as well as an 80% reduction size in the PostgreSQL database. Good things are happening.
I still need to look into self-hosting Lemmy some time, but alas, it takes time lol
I'm even more tempted now that lemmy.one, my main instance I was using, appears to be down with a database issue according to its API. Which of course means if they don't have working backups, it may actually just be gone forever, along with my post history there.
Hello from another self hosted instance! Also using Lemmy Community Seeder to populate my All feed and help in discovering new communities. Lemmy Community Seeder
You did it! Hello, and welcome to the club. Lemmy has been my first foray into hosting a site on a VPS and it's been quite the rabbit-hole; for the better of course. I hope you have fun.