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I’m pretty sure most of people who mainly use discord as their main social apps probably never touched forum-based internet.

Hosting your own forum is also better as you (the owner of the site) can still retrieve the msgs as long as you still have the access to the host server.

Not to mention using discord is already risking yourself because of their shitty policy.

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madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What’s a safe way to host a site without anyone being able to track it to you?

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- Crafter72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ll explain it in layman’s terms…
  
  There is always a price (inconvenience) for secure-ness in online world.
  
  There’s 2 option to host a forum,
  
  You can use service like forum hoster or rent a VPS (so you can setup your own server although not self-hosting).
  
  Self-host yourself (this one a bit tricky if you aren’t prepared).
  
  Learn some good basic OpSec habit (eg. Never use same password, Never put your personal detail in your active directory especially on your site source document, use 2FA and so on).
  
  Learn to spot a phising or malicious link and never to randomly click random link in an email (in times when someone tried to social engineering you).
  
  Use reputable service provider if you are not going to self-host yourself.
  
  If you happen to self-host, make sure to check your open ports and secure them. Bots always probing any site in the world!
  
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  - madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hm not really sure this answers what I mean. If you are hosting a site, how do you stop corps demanding your name from the hosting provider and going after you?
    
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    Crafter72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sadly for that matter it is more to the legal area.
    
    For identity they can catch you either from email or the payment info. For email you can make one easily, but for payment search a provider that accept virtual (credit) card, or get something that accept crypto wallet.
    
    Yeah, online exposure can point you sooner or later depending how motivated the party that seek you.
    
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- merthyr1831@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  try !privacy@lemmy.ml as I’m not 100% on this stuff
  
  but basically:
  
  some third party hosts let you sign up anonymously with an anonymous email etc.
  
  Only ever connect to the server host via VPN
  
  Get a domain with anonymous WHOIS protection
  
  Stick it all behind a reverse proxy
  
  Technically Nintendo or whoever could demand your proxy/host to stop doing business with your account, but they won’t have enough personal info to go beyond that and you can just rehost it under new info.
  
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  - madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How would you pay for the hosting without being exposed?
    
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someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I make lots of use of discord. That does not mean I prefer it to forum style for communication - discord just suits well for one-off joke-y talk

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- Crafter72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe in my message seems to focus solely on discord for putting the blame… The problem nowadays is that mostly these “devs” share/upload/host their releases in Discord which means you do use Discord’s CDN to host their files. Another common complaint of these practices is that you need to join their server in order to just download relevant files which makes it infuriating if you stumbles across these practices often. For example I joined 8 different discord servers just to download a software/binary/release, why can’t just put the release on something like Mediafire, Google Drive, Megaupload or perhaps sourceforge.
  
  I do understand Discord is communication platform but most of time some people are too lazy to manage stuff so what happen is that everything is hosted in single place as such Discord.
  
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  - someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wait, wtf. People literally post helpful resources and artifacts on discord, and nowhere else? Huh. Just as I thought it is impossible to go lower
    
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    Crafter72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Internet is really wide and open if you know direction :)
    
    Even libgen (Library Genesis) still provide IRC as one of option to download ebook from their catalog.
    
    FMHY and Internet Archive is a good entry point if you want to search anything.
    
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