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.

  • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The project is open source so you can see what they are logging, if you can read the code.

    But simply some things that are logged:

    • IPs are logged but I don’t see them being associated with a user account. This looks to mainly be for rate limiting.
    • What posts/comments you’ve looked at are logged. This is so the UI can gray out posts you’ve already seen or mark replies to you own comments as read.

    From what I can tell neither of these data points are federated so only the instance your logged into has that information.

    ** Don’t use this as an exhaustive list. These are just the two items you specifically asked about and what I’ve seen looking through the code so far. **

    • Cayenne05dingos@geddit.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I cannot read code so this is much appreciated. i guess the hard part me, and maybe for people who also want to join lemmy but are intimidated, is building trust with a host. IMO I think this will hold Lemmy back. thank you for answering