Hi. I’m new to Lemmy. Here’s what I’m wondering. How Lemmy servers are paid. If the person who opens the server no longer wants to pay this fee, the server has to shut down. How is this issue resolved?
Hi. I’m new to Lemmy. Here’s what I’m wondering. How Lemmy servers are paid. If the person who opens the server no longer wants to pay this fee, the server has to shut down. How is this issue resolved?
It’s important to chose a instance with a reputable host.
Don’t go join your neighbors basement troll server.
Pick something that’s established, then they will typically not shut down.
Speaking of basement troll servers, I think hosting your own instance is probably the best way to go about it if you can.
Unfortunately it’s harder to remain anonymous that way though. I’m really wanting to do this but I don’t see how it’s doable without going over Tor or I2P.
Single-user basement troll servers are the way forward in the fediverse.
Use ZeroTier or Tailscale tunneling if you’re hosting from your home network (fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare). You can also rent a cloud server, put a VPN on it and tunnel all of the traffic to your homeserver without exposing the homeserver itself to the internet. Or just put the instance on the cloud server itself.
I might be out of the loop, why?
Mostly centralization and monopoly concerns, considering that 80% of websites use Cloudflare. The data security isn’t great (Cloudflare can obviously access all traffic unencrypted) but the tunnels are free. I won’t yell at people for using Cloudflare, especially for the DDOS protection which is difficult for a smaller company to provide, but it’s always treated like everyone has to use it or else their website will explode, which gets annoying.
I’m talking more about the domain itself. It doesn’t matter where I tunnel in from if the domain is registered to my name. Even with WHOIS privacy it doesn’t feel too secure.
I have all of my domains under my name with WHOIS privacy enabled and I’ve never gotten a spam call or email from my domains. Your registrar won’t give out your personal information unless they have to comply, like a legal warrant. But if you’re worried about your particulars getting leaked somehow, you can use a VOIP number and PO Box address as your contact information, as long as you use your real name so your domains can’t be taken from you during a dispute. Registrars like Njalla and Epik also give you the option to list them as the domain contact so you don’t have to leave your personal information at all, and they’ll forward any messages to your account.
I probably spoke too soon without doing the appropriate research. Thanks for the insight! I tend to think pretty black and white when it comes to security, in this case along the lines of “if the government can get to you, so can anyone.”
Very complicated
Noone said it’s gonna be easy. Besides, if you don’t understand that stuff you really shouldn’t be running your server anyways