if I have communications with someone through the internet with a homeserver. I would inevitably give out my IP address. Is that a bad thing? In my country they don’t have services like that, RTCing would be a bit sluggish using available euro servers.

  • arbocenc
    1•2 years ago

    I think you could use a Tor proxy on your server to avoid sharing your IP. Or use a VPN.

  • Jama
    1•2 years ago

    It depends on your threat model, as always. Since your IP is linked to you, police and everyone else who can legally ask your provider something will know who you really are. This can be a non-issue in some country and for some use-cases, and could be really dangerous for someone else. But except for this it should not impact deeply your privacy, AFAIK, and having communications under your only complete control is always a good thing. I would only be careful to not link too much services to my only person, especially “social media”.

    Still, I would advice against hosting your email server for your primary mail, since it will probably cause too many problems (antispam and the like) with other big providers

    • ierOP
      1•2 years ago

      I’m not trying to be anonymous or anything, I just hate not being in control of my own privacy from things snooping everything I do. e.g. using a windows computer, using whatsapp, google. etc. for communications.

      Although one worry I have is my home address being public information.

  • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    0•2 years ago

    One thing:

    Hosting email at home is not possible at all. Since you didn’t rent a static IP address and set the inverse zone of your email domain, most public and common email servers will auto-block you.

    • @N0b3d@lemmy.ml
      0•2 years ago

      That’s just not true. It is, some might say, ridiculously hard to do because these days there are so many i’s to dot and t’s to cross, but it’s not impossible. A friend hosts his domains’ email at home.