Hi i just wanted to know if it is possible to host instance completely without renting anything.

if you have a video on it can you please share it here?

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Yea, you can but unless you plan to leave your PC on all the time and open ports on your firewall directly to your PC.

There are some major risks on doing that though.

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not really i will just leave it on the days that i need

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Thats not really how it works. Lemmy works on a Push model. When a post is created and the instance knows you are interested in the post by a user subscribing to it, the Lemmy instance will send the post to your server. But if your sever does not respond then the other instance will mark your server as dead and stop trying to send you posts.

When you turn on your instance you aren’t going to get a flood of posts that you have missed over the past few days/hours.

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