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Who can see my IP on Lemmy? (self.privacy)
submitted 2 years ago by BuoyantCitrus to c/privacy
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Looked through the docs a bit and it's not really clear to me: I'm posting this on lemmy.ca, does that mean only that instance knows my IP? Or does every instance it federates with get my ip alongside this post?

This seems maybe important, did I miss a privacy guide to Lemmy someplace? Cursory searching didn't come up with much official. Are there other aspects we should be thinking about here? I'd come across some mention of deleted posts being still available everywhere they were sent but that sorta makes sense -- hard to "unpublish" anything.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey thanks. I'm trying to be more mindful of how tech interacts with my life, and as a non techie, I appreciate you doing this, and I found it to be useful information even for my idiot self, even if only to understand the lemmyverse a little better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fyi As a (non-lemmy) backend developer, this is completely normal/standard use of IP addresses in a system not designed around harvesting your personal data. IP addresses are commonly used for efficiently and securely (security for the server more than you) handling active (inflight) requests so you generally only see it in specific network logs like those of the reverse proxy, not stored long term in a DB. Most of us who aren't in advertising or government want to know as little about you as possible.

Being privacy mindful is good, but it is a deep and creepy rabbit hole to go down. Stay safe out there ๐Ÿ™‚.