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That is really concerning. Activity Pub should have a mechanism to hide those. If by any chance, one's identity is reviled, their entire behaviour history would be out in the wild. The more one use an account, the more information is getting shared. Social engineering is a real thing.
The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting (lurkers), which is not good for a social media like Lemmy or by changing accounts often.
No we shouldn't. Anyone can create an instance and scrape whatever data.
Assume that all the posts and comment you make are public and linked to your real identity and don't say things you wouldn't say in person.
It's a pretty simple concept.
Shame, guess I can't say categorising Palestine Action as a terrorist group is dumb.
My comment was misguided because it didn't take the US social context into account.
You can't say it, but I can though.
Categorising Palestine Action as a terrorist group is ultra dumb.
You may want to be careful then if you need to travel through the United States.
https://archive.md/20250913102855/https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/
I know that already, I'm fine with what I said.
Oh god this discussion again... We totally haven't had this before:
I don't know if this is news to you but this is not a lemmy specific problem and basically applies to the entire internet...
The fact that most instances permit external image hosting permits obtaining user IP addresses by posting inline images hosted on a server created by an attacker, then harvesting IPs there. I noticed when going through the code that Lemmy, as of 0.19.4, has an option to protect users of a home instance by proxying images viewed there. However, it requires bandwidth and disk space, and I don't think that many home instances have it on. It is definitely not on on my own home instance, lemmy.today.
0.19.4 release announcement:
I don't know whether PieFed and Mbin presently have comparable functionality.
One major issue is that proxying the images will create more bandwidth usage on a home node, since they're serving up all the images viewed by users of that home node, as well as disk space to store the proxied images
it's more-expensive to run a node in that mode.
Unless your home instance has this option enabled, you should probably consider your IP address to be globally-visible. Note that using a VPN will mean that only the VPN's exit node IP will be visible.
So close to a sweet meter. What do you think of
"If, by some chance, one's handle's reviled / their foul history would be out in the wild."
? It's not perfect. Probably just a little more work-shopping.