Offshore hosting and VPNs enter the chat.

It's mildly risky, as a small player, to host anything public in your own legal jurisdiction or that you can't "cut loose" on a whim. It's not just silly laws, but also civil lawsuits, copyright trolls, bad actors, etc.

If they can't easily identify you, they can't easily ruin your day, and most opportunists will give up.

Well, that's fucking stupid.