The thing is that right now it’s not worth it to buy a raspberry pi if you want to selfhost. It is 4 years old at this point but it cost 50% more than when it was released.

If I’m not mistaken to make your instance available to other people you’d have to set up a reverse proxy. And a correctly set up reverse proxy shouldn’t reveal your IP, only the local IP (127.0.0.1).

I might be wrong, so ask on the !selfhosted@lemmy.world, since it’s more active than this community.

However renting a VPS and hosting your Lemmy instance there is probably a better idea if you plan on creating a community, since it will minimize risks (DMCA notices, bugs in the Lemmy source code that could expose your server, etc). And it would make scaling easier if your instance grows.

If I’m not mistaken both Beehaw and Lemmy.world are pretty big mainstream instances.

Why has Beehaw decided to stop federating with lemmy.world?

It’s really interesting seeing how fast the community can iterate and improve the models.

And it’s really frustrating seeing how some of the companies that benefit the most from open source projects and research, choose to make their products closed-source for profit, at the expense of societal improvement.

Compartmentalization.

Get another drive for your PC (an SSD is a better idea for gaming especially since now they’re pretty cheap).

Install Windows if you want more compatible games or Linux if the games you’re going to play are compatible.

Encrypt both drives and don’t log in into anything important while on your gaming drive.

Try to buy all of your games on GOG or itch.io (or similar platforms where games don’t have DRM).

Use different usernames between each game and/or between games that you play with strangers and your friends. Don’t use usernames that you’re already using, especially usernames that could link to your real identity.

Avoid games with invasive anticheats like Valorant.