Or would concentrating my lemmy/piefed use strictly through a self-hosted one person instance account help to ensure nothing but what I’m ‘intentionally doing’ is tracked?
It would ensure that yes. The other instance would only see the IP of your instance, not browser information or anything else. I haven't tried selfhosting, so I can't speak to it's difficulty, but as far as I know, there is no reason to distrust any of the major Lemmy or Piefed instances. I'm not an expert and it is open source software so anyone could theoretically edit the code if they wanted.
And privacy refers to having control over who can see your personal information, anonymity means being unidentifiable.
A default installation of Lemmy/Piefed won't track users beyond what they intentionally do on the site. But if you want to be sure, then you can always host your own instance of one person. (In addition to all user activity), other instances can only see the IP of the instance the account is hosted on.
If you want something to be private then well, don't post to the public web (as a reminder- DMs aren't private on Piefed/Lemmy). If you want to be anonymous, then use a VPN and don't repeat a username you used elsewhere.
Last I looked into this Frigate was the most robust path to take, they recommend cameras that are about $50-$100 each but in my playing around I connected a Yi camera ($10) with custom firmware.
That said it was all a bit over my head and I had trouble connecting it to home assistant and gave up
I would love a follow up post with whatever setup you go with!
If there was a book or website out there that described something poisonous as not poisonous, and someone believed what was written and became poisoned, I think most reasonable people would point the blame at whoever published the bad information.
Yet when the bad (potentially deadly in this case!) information comes from ChatGPT, OpenAI gets a pass (including by everyone so far in this comment section) and the blame is placed on the person who was poisoned!
You asked how can you live peacefully knowing that your words might be used against you. I don't believe you can, and I also don't believe you ever truly could. But I also don't believe that is a reason to self-censor.
how can i live peacfully knowing that i can be suspected of anything just because i made a joke here or said something there?
You've never been able to say things publicly (or, since the internet, publish something that the entire world can read) and expect to be shielded from the consequences. There is always a risk that comes with speaking freely, especially if powerful people perceive your words as a challenge to their power.
The erosion of privacy protections is a reason to despair, but it is also a reason to speak more.
It would ensure that yes. The other instance would only see the IP of your instance, not browser information or anything else. I haven't tried selfhosting, so I can't speak to it's difficulty, but as far as I know, there is no reason to distrust any of the major Lemmy or Piefed instances. I'm not an expert and it is open source software so anyone could theoretically edit the code if they wanted.
And privacy refers to having control over who can see your personal information, anonymity means being unidentifiable.