It doesn’t make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can’t really track you based on just the username.
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PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 10 months agoWell, they could gather that, then skim through your posts, and then look at all the other ways they’ve gathered your data, like any of the Facebook trackers on various other websites, then create a shadow profile of you with all of the collective sum information they have.
And that’s assuming you don’t already use Facebook or messenger, in which case they basically have everything anyway.
It also assumes that they haven’t purchased any data from data brokers to create these shadow profiles. Having an IP is actually pretty bad, all things considered, when you have a trove of information
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck, I shouldn’t have used my reddit handle.
ethan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They could already get all of your profile and post info… I could get that right now through the free api for every account on this and every other thread with a couple dozen lines of code.