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  • You need to host your domain somewhere, meaning some DNS provider needs to be the authority on what gets routed where when someone accesses your domain.

    The provider will give you a list of nameservers when you make the domain part of their DNS.

    I don’t know if there are any that are free (if you don’t also buy a domain from them), so you’ll have to check on your own. You can also self-host a bind9 server and do your DNS there.













  • In theory, though in this particular case you’re giving them to an open source app which you can check the source code of. Of course there is the possibility that I’ve modified the code that I’m hosting, you’re gonna have to trust me that I didn’t.

    I’m an author of many open source libraries and apps and I have no need to steal your credentials. Though that of course doesn’t have to mean anything to you.

    But if you’re giving your credentials to a mobile app or any other frontend, you’re doing pretty much the same thing. And technically speaking, even trusting your instance admins is the same thing - they might have modified the code to log your credentials.

    In general, yes, you should be worried where you put your credentials. In ideal scenario Lemmy would support OAuth or something like that, but that’s not the case currently.