Hey guys, thanks to some of you I was able to set up my lemmy instance. Its working flawlessly. But here comes my new question:
From a security perspective, is it less secure and less anonymous this way, right? I mean with an account on any other instance you would be kinda insivisble if you use a VPN and a alias email without any trace back to yourself. But with an own instance anybody can check where is your server located, therefore you would be less anonym. Right?
You can make it private only. And have it not block all of the federation except few. Server location is not necessarily your location. Just make sure you have log rotate and keep as few logs on the file system as possible: and use nicknames and nothing personal.
You can obfuscate your location with a reverse proxy. The biggest problem with self-hosting is what can get compromised if they get access inside your network as opposed to a VPS. Keeping up to date on what is publically facing for vulnerabilities starts to become a chore.
Your actual question has been answered but I want to add that it’s also a boon to be public in terms of adding legitimacy and weight behind what you comment and post. I stake my real name and identity behind what I post. Basically the foundational idea behind Facebook before it turned into the beast it is today.
depends, a server is just a server. Its more about how you setup your domain and secure your site. My domains are all anon and I run my servers through cloudflare. You don’t really see the actual server itself, just cloudflares gateway.
