• timespace@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      The other day wefwef.app hit api limits on lemmy.world so nothing was loading for awhile. The dev recommended selfhosting if you were able to go avoid these shutdowns.

      Another benefit would be that your selfhosting instance would theoretically be available even if wefwef.app was down for some reason or another.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not using it at the moment. But what would be the benefit of self hosting?

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      1 year ago

      Currently the benefit is not sending your credentials and other requests through wefwef.app and avoiding throttling. If you value privacy self hosting is a good idea. If you trust wefwef, then the only other reason is to customize/develop wefwef.

      After CORS fix in Lemmy is done and wefwef updates your requests should go directly to Lemmy servers so privacy concerns are mitigated.