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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I just joined and I suspect that you're correct: there's an overall learning curve. No snarky tone intended, but explaining decentralization to those who would likely struggle with grasping the basic client/server model is going to be challenge.
Shoot, I've got 10 years pentesting and R&D under my belt and it took me a while to weigh the pros and cons of creating an account on a public instance or self-hosting. (Will self-host eventually...enjoying a test drive.)
wait I can selfhost my own lemmy and then use my account from there? ... and then I can federate whoever I choose?? ... and my have ownership of my own account??? 🤯
Sure can! It's a bit involved and there are security considerations to take into account. Those who deploy their own instance have to make sure the underlying services are well-configured and patched. This happened yesterday, for instance. Hard to know the exact scope of the compromise, but in bad circumstances it could have compromised everyone's credentials who has registered on lemmy.world. I've no reason to believe that's the case....just saying it's a thing.