Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk.
Your IP would only be seen by your instance (which is inevitable, you gotta connect to it after all). But there’s no way for anyone else to look up your IP.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I read that since images are hosted on the instance they were posted to, any instance hosting pictures you load, even if they’re DMd to you can get your ip. So someone could just DM you a picture from their own instance if they wanted it for whatever reason. I have not personally verified, but just adding it here because this comment seems to be the most succinct and accurate one I currently see.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Really only if they’re DMs. Because a publicly posted picture yeah, they’ll see your IP loading it but they will also see everyone’s, with no way to tell who is who.
And a fairly recently Lemmy was updated to not show embedded images in DMs so that wouldn’t even work. (This depends on your client, but on the most recent official web version external images are blocked)
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
image proxying may become (more of) a thing in future.