Submitted 1 year ago by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2452085
This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
What is your threat model or goal? It could hide the device you use to connect to the instance, however a lot of actions you do on Lemmy, including all upvotes, are public to other instances.
Side note: if you’re doing it for privacy reasons, I was reading that self hosting for just yourself will allow people to see what communities you subscribe to, based on what communities are visible on your server.
Your ip will only be visible on the self hosted instance, if that’s what you are asking.
That depends. Media will likely be loaded from elsewhere, as will any external link you click.
True, it depends what you are doing on the instance.
SGG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very loosely it would act as a caching or proxy service from what I understand.
My understanding is that when you subscribe to community “x” on server “y”, that your server “z” starts to download all of the content from that community so it can serve it to you locally. I don’t know how fast the activitypub protocol would fetch new posts/comments, if it’s real-time, or some kind of intermittent pull or push.