I want to set up a lemmy instance as a subreddit alternative for a community I moderate. I would be running the instance on a local machine in my home so I really want to make sure that it can’t be traced to my physical location.

I already subscribe to ExpressVPN for general use, can I just install it on the local machine, press connect, and boom be anonymous? What impact would this have on users?

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    1 year ago

    I think you can do it but you’ll probably need port forwarding on the VPN.

    Unfortunately Mullvad just cancelled this feature.

    Alternatively you can run your own VPN with a VPS (and use it like a reverse proxy), then you can easily control the port forwarding.