Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.

  1. Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance?
  2. is there a log of my view history
  3. 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.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • CyanFen@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know about 2 and 3, but every service and website you connect to has your IP address.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Copying my reply of this exact same question to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support

    Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance?

    You share your IP Address with ANY online service you interact with. This is how it talks back to you to send you content.

    is there a log of my view history

    Not by default. However, enabling verbose logging on the webserver can indeed log this information. Just- not in a pretty way.

    are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?

    Anytime you comment, post, or vote, that data is stored in a database and sent to every other instance subscribed to the community for which you are interacting with, and then stored in their database as well.

    So- tldr; lemmy isn’t really a privacy-focused place. Although, its honestly not much different then reddit. Reddit logs EVERYTHING you do, and then shares that data with third parties for the purpose of advertising.

    Although, there isn’t anything in place in lemmy to prevent this data from doing the same thing. Silently, and without you knowing.

  • Mmagnusson@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Optimally instances should have a tos or privacy statement, but out of the box you can expect a web server to collect your IP (if for nothing but know where to respond to your requests), a log of your requests, and any content you generate in using the instance (comments, votes, posts). login data (email, username, hashed password) are also stored to let you log in at all.

    any other data will depend on the instance in question, how it is configured, and who is running it.