I’m reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service).
This basically shuts my idea down, because I wanted to simply host my account myself and browse all of Lemmy as I please.
So is everyone hosting individual instances dealing with them being public? is there a workaround to avoid having a public service that anyone can see?
Private in this context means that it is isolated. If you want it to be private in the sense that it’s only for you to use the you just close registrations.
Anonymity and federation are kind of oxymoronic.