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

I think LibreWolf browser helped me spoof my address. When i signed into Google, i go a gmail from Google saying that an unknown person was using my account in a city across the country and using Windows 10. At the time, I hadn't been using Windows at all and had never even tried Windows 10. Can't you get a friend to help you test it out? Ask them to turn on screen recorder and then open up an email from you or a message - then you can see what he/she sees. Then, that person sends you the video. there is also a live way to do that, but I forget what it is called - screen share or something. I think Zoom can do that and a few other software can. I'm not tech-savvy, so not sure if that'd work. Maybe someone here can correct me or add to my idea to make it work better.