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Thanks for that. I think I was getting confused between turning off all federation and defederating with an instance.
Setting all that aside, I would caution that even turning off federation isn’t enough to necessarily make it truly private. People could still discover it through random portscanning or whatever.
Yeah running solo you still need a hostname if anyone else is to reasonably use it, without resorting to vpns, private dns and/or other complexity.
And the default deployment of Lemmy is still publicly viewable without login so you're still posting everything for the world to see. Security by obscurity is no security at all. As has been said a million times. Same naturally goes for privacy.