Started out on the fmhy.ml just prior to the .ml debacle. On lemmy.world now, but they have just started banning piracy communities. The new fmhy instance, of course, has already died before I got to try it.
sigh Married pasty male looking for lemmy instance that:
- Has some decent uptime / Reliable / Not on a fly by night top level domain
- Hates Nazi’s and doesn’t hesitate to ban, block and defederate such crap
- Tolerant of piracy communities and federations
- Oh, and will let me see comments in the Technology community. That isn’t working for me here.
Suggestions welcome.
Problem is that selfhosting makes it significantly harder to be anonymous when everyone can see your IP with a trivial lookup. Or I guess you could rent a VPS instead of running it locally.
Some might say that’s a feature, not a bug. If you’re not willing to stand by your words, then who are you, really?
But fine, let’s talk:
There’s Cloudflare, for what they’re worth on privacy and anonymity.
There’s VPS, as you say, but they are responsive to subpoenas.
There are sketchy “data haven” counties whose sketchy economy you’re fueling with your rent. (* Cough * .ml * cough *)
Chose, but chose wisely.
Just because you choose a domain in a “data haven”, doesn’t mean that you’re necessary more or less private.
It does help with piracy for not getting a site shutdown but I think that’s the only reason.