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?

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    1 year ago

    It really depends, honestly. If your instance is hosted behind a tunnel that is served through some sort of IP farm somewhere without jurisdiction of your own country, and that it doesn’t trace back to you in any way shape or form, then it’s definitely better. But if you are just hosting on your personal IP address, and with a domain name that is yours and registered to your name, you are definitely ‘exposed’ in that way. Up to you how to deal with that though.