Like even if they have nothing else they could just leak IP is there any law against it ? Or any technical aspect stopping them ?
What info would an admin even have? Just my public ip and my email?
And your post history but so does everyone else and their cats.
The counter-question is : what do you win by doing this ?
Nobody cares about ips. This is mine: 193.81.127.151 . Try to find out anything about me exept my approximate location.
Now That’s Dope
Too bad I block autoplay, lol
Technical measures are impossible in this particular case. However, I would say that the complete lack of benefits or incentives makes it very unlikely. Doing so could be illegal and collecting data which is otherwise useless is only a liability and a waste of resources. Basically the admin own self-interest I would say is what’s stopping them. That said, if someone is individually afraid due to a bad relationship with an admin, then personal motives could void the above, in which case, they should change instance probably or use a VPN at least.
Technically nothing but vibes
Serious answer: nothing except their own lack of access to anything except the ip address and whatever you give them.
But that’s easy to counter with a VPN and a bit of common sense.
Maliciously Leaking IP is doxxing, doxxing is illegal.
That said, law enforcement can just request for the IP/Logs and they’ll likely hand them over.Nobody cares about your IP. Admins can see it, they can see mine, they don’t care.
If you want to be paranoid use mullvad and call it a day.
Because its a waste of there time? What’s stopping anyone from doxxing you?
Oh my… This whole thread is literally the best of ‘Do you have something to hide?’, ‘Why should they use it?’, ‘What could happen?’, ‘That’s paranoid’ and so on.
Really disappointing.
Yeah the lemming hive mind
Use TorBrowser is that’s a concern.
I do for most things but not lemmy i just like jerboa
Oh, it’s an android app? Then your IP is pretty much worthless if I’m not mistaken. You should get a new IP every time you make a new connection. Just test it. Go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ , turn off your data, turn it back on, reload the webpage. Mine gives me a new IP every time I turn off cell data.
Also, there’s a TOR android app.
Yeay i use the android tor bruh what did you think ? Also does it matter if it resets ip everytime like isn’t it still geo traceble ?
This only works when using Mobile Data. You will most likely have the same WAN address if using WiFi. Dynamic WAN addresses do change periodically, however at the whim of your ISP. Now unless you pay for a static IP address, this local WAN address is also useless. Hell even a static IP address doesn’t open you up to much harm.
As far as geolocation goes: IP’s are given in blocks, no one will be able to get your precise location, only what ever your ISP is broadcasting.
My location will sometimes show Seattle, other times MPLS, all depends on whichever route it takes.
Every website you access without a VPN or TOR has an IP. I’m not sure what you’re worried about…
Nothing stops them.
Don’t worry too hard about the ip though, there’s plenty of servers still running versions with insecure pms and that seems like a much bigger problem than ip addresses.
What are you concerned about? maybe I can help you figure out a way to mitigate it.
Nothing much just ip leak . And i don’t say anything on pm that i won’t say in public.
Well, ip leak would be useful for me if I were trying to figure out your general location, the specific edge device that you’re behind or if I were compiling a massive dataset to find a vulnerability.
In the first case, don’t worry about it. Ip addresses are allocated to the provider and dynamically assigned such that without a huge corroborating dataset or at least a couple of recent delivery records cross referenced to an online order someone can’t reasonably figure out your home address from it.
The second thing is inherent to the design of the internet, but the danger of someone knowing the ip of the edge device you’re sitting behind can be mitigated by securing that device. The easy stuff would be like turning off web console or snmp on wan, picking a good password, making sure its firmware is updated etc. if you’re forwarding ports or self hosting it gets more complex but that’s how you can make it “okay” that anyone could know your ip.
The third thing is complex and at this point requires a fundamental change in the way you view computer&web usage, communication and most likely a subscription to some scrubbing service. Sorry, we live in the bad timeline.
All three can be either mitigated or assisted by the use of a vpn. You have to pay for a vpn, the free options are monetized by bundling and selling the data that goes through them.
If there’s something I missed or whatever, lmk.
I use tor for most thing so i am not at all worried about those. But for lemmy i just use jerboa .
Get a vpn. It’ll make you less worried.
The gold standard is mullvad paid for with cash, but lots of stuff blocks their exit ips so if you get pissed off by that, use express or nord or whatever gets high ratings from websites that see if their exit nodes are blocked.
I run an instance. I promise, I have literally 0 care about who you are. I have much more productive things to do with my time.
So you’re just gonna let CSAM fly?
I’m sorry I didn’t call out every exception to the rule. Obviously, if you do illegal things on my instance, I will care. I kind of thought that was a given, to be honest.
Don’t worry its a troll just stop feeding it.
Why’s that where your mind goes?
Because it’s the most important reason we have admins, and they have a responsibility to not “not care” about it
Oh? Are you signing the checks?
Except they don’t though. They have 0 reason or incentive to care. You are hoping they are good people and care, but they don’t have to.
You’re connecting to their servers. They’re going to get your IP. This is unavoidable.
They can even * [gasp] * read the messages and things you willingly post onto their servers.
I hereby revoke the right of my messages being read by lemmy.ml administrators under any circumstances.
I HAVE NO CONTRACT WITH YOU!
I don’t think that’s enforceable, it would be like if there was a sign that said “do not read me” which some games have done as a joke.
They have no business incentive for it, contrary to most other websites that are funded by targeted advertisement which basically means doxxing their users to advertisement companies.
