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Comment on Ask HN: If HN was self-hostable software like Lemmy, would you host an instance?

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I'm not sure I really understand the question -- it seems like it's just asking "would you ever host a discussion board". Am I understanding correctly?

If I were to entertain standing up a board like HN, I wouldn't use something like Lemmy to do it. I'm not sure what benefit I'd get from that. HN is pretty basic and, in my opinion, that's an important part of the appeal.

"Am I understanding correctly?"

Yes; a discussion board using the same frontend and backend HN uses, if it was open-source and self-hostable.

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