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is selfhosting public stuff like XMPP, Email, ActivityPub, on a homeserver good for privacy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by armoredgore@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] testingthis@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not impossible -- if everyone starts doing it, then most public and common email servers cannot block them.

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Self-hosting without applying these checks (which would involve signing a contract and exposing property data about the static IP address) is a thing used by spammers and they have the blocking automatized most times.

[–] armoredgore@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You need two static email addresses?

Edit: At this point I'll have another service provider to have my own email.

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In DNS you have a direct zone for records A, AAAA, MX, TXT, etc and an inverse zone also called rDNS for PTR records.