The only real benefit to hosting your own iris web app is that the code it runs cannot change without you knowing it. For example, a bug or malicious code deployment could steal private keys on login.

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so another benifit is that it is way much faster and pops the notes up quick. The other lags a bit and I have to wait for new posts to finally pop up to view. this feels like the old social media apps we used to use

okay that took me about 2 min to set up ... man Start9 is the BOMB

#[2] - don't let it go to your head!!!!

You are great, but we need you to deliver your improved networking as soon as you can.

One downside I found was that I can't upload images with my self hosted iris - maybe some issue connecting from my #start9 #homeserver to the nostr.build site?

found that too