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Who can see my IP on Lemmy? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] Wander@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unlike Mastodon, one of the good things is that only you're instances system administrator has access to your IP: no mods nor site admins.

You can then use a VPN on top of that.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

That's cool. Makes me glad I went to the privacyguides instance, since I've trusted their recommendations for a while.

[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting! Mastodon surfaces those things? But still just within an instance and not across them as activitypub itself doesn't include such metadata (or it's extensible enough that's moot?) I wonder why? You wouldn't need to expose the IP to admins to offer them the ability to add it to a blocklist...

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

Mastodon lets every moderator, not just admins, see your last few IP addresses and and email address.

Only for local users, though. Not remote users fortunately.