Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.
- Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance?
- is there a log of my view history
- are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?
I do not want to be in a position where a Government creates an instance, and allows them to monitor.
If you don’t want governments monitoring you, I really think you need to get off the public internet.
The tools are becoming too advanced, and they are legally allowed to do it by current law. In most places anyway. So, wave to the alphabet soup guys, everyone! Hiiiii~! Hope you all catch a terrorist! Have a good day!
I mean, if they’re legally allowed to monitor, then they’d just be dumb not to, you know? It’s our job to make that illegal if we don’t want it to happen, and we haven’t done that yet.
There was a thread that asks the same question (which I can’t find… somebody paste the link pls):
You can observe lemmy’s database schema on Github.
This links to current (as this comment) version of “local_user” table.
Thank you for the answer, I cross posted my question to a couple threads. I cant read code, but I appreciate your link a bunch
I can answer question 1 confidently:
Yes, web host does know your IP, not limited to lemmy, this is how Internet works.
Partially answering question 3:
Someone said lemmy doesn’t comply with GDPR because deleted is a boolean (true/false) value
I don’t know about 2 and 3, but every service and website you connect to has your IP address.