• FailBetter@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks for DM tip, I didn’t think about it, but I guess that explains the need for something like the matrix protocol. Only thing i’ve ever hosted myself was a simplex chat smtp/xftp server on a vps. I basically just closely followed a guide from simplifiedprivacy with a readymade script and already knew how to ssh into stuffs. Do you recommend hosting a one person instance strictly as an experiment to verify that nothings being tracked? Or would concentrating my lemmy/piefed use strictly through a self-hosted one person instance account help to ensure nothing but what I’m ‘intentionally doing’ is tracked? I’m looking to get sold on hosting, but I’m also not really in a spot to waste money on another vps just for fun.

    Also I really need a good resource to finally stop confusing privacy/anonymity/other similar security concepts. Thank you greatly for the patience and help

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Or would concentrating my lemmy/piefed use strictly through a self-hosted one person instance account help to ensure nothing but what I’m ‘intentionally doing’ is tracked?

      It would ensure that yes. The other instance would only see the IP of your instance, not browser information or anything else. I haven’t tried selfhosting, so I can’t speak to it’s difficulty, but as far as I know, there is no reason to distrust any of the major Lemmy or Piefed instances. I’m not an expert and it is open source software so anyone could theoretically edit the code if they wanted.

      And privacy refers to having control over who can see your personal information, anonymity means being unidentifiable.