Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?
Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I’m interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?
Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?
Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?
Yes it is possible.
Aside from the local communities in your instance right now (and using the local timeline), you already have manually to subscribe to every community you want.
You already want to subscribe only to the communities you are interested in, or else you will get too many unwanted posts because the timeline is not cut to fit you like other social media services.
You can use Lemmy community browser to search for communities in all instances.