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Do you have any advice, recommendations, and/or tips for someone wanting to host a public/non-personal Lemmy instance? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same way things get leaked by Equifax, Twitch, US Bank, etc. You’re most responsible with your information by not having unnecessary accounts or transactions.

This would be low down on my concern for threat levels. At any rate, the only way to get around this would be to either host it on one's own hardware on one's own network, or to somehow anonymously purchase a VPS (I am currently unaware of a trustworthy VPS that allows anonymous hosting. I have heard of BitLaunch, but I don't know how trustworthy it is — do they have the ability to intercept control of the DO Droplet?).

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Addendum (2024-11-11T23:40Z):

I just found Njalla which seems to allow anonymous purchasing of VPSs, but idk how reputable they are.