Hello,

Since your Lemmy posts, comments, related activities, and your basic profile information will be stored in the databases across the fediverse, possibly never to be deleted (or kept by somebody who can), do you:

  1. Always use Tor/VPN with a fediverse app?
  2. Recommend others do the same?

If you feel that it is unnecessary, why do you feel that way? If you think it is necessary, why so?

Thanks. I am trying to get a feel of what I should do. For example, if my instance loses its data (due to a hack, sale, vulnerability, etc.), I am pretty sure all the information is lost (including my IP addresses). If other instances lose their data, or keep the data for their own purposes, then my posts/comments/related activities are lost (maybe excluding some of my profile information, my settings, and my IP addresses).

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    16•1 year ago

    I just don’t care?

    I know that stuff is public when I used it.

    I’ve known this is how the internet works since the 90’s. I’ve also known that my IP address isn’t a scary super identifying thing as the movies would make you believe. For most people, it’s gonna point to your ISP and not your personal device.

    Shit man, back in the day we used to scare noobs by showing them their own IP because it was incredibly easy to obtain. It still is, most of the time. Because it doesn’t mean fuck all.

    As for everything else: If you don’t want certain pieces of information out in the wild… Don’t put them there in the first place. It’s that simple.