• davel@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Is ActivityPub logging which IP I post from?

    That depends on the implementation.

    Is ActivityPub monitoring which communities I view?

    That depends on the implementation.

    Is ActivityPub blocking me from browsing with my VPN on?

    That—believe it or not—depends on the implementation.

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      3 months ago

      We already have an implementation. You me and OP are all on Lemmy. So can you answer these in the context of Lemmy again?

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        3 months ago

        I actually can’t answer them, because I only admin this instance, I don’t run it.

        While I’m sure this is not the case, it’s entirely possible that the people who do run this instance are running a fork of it that does all of those things. It couldn’t log your IP address or block your VPN, but it could mine, and your instance could yours. And I haven’t read the Lemmy source code, so I don’t know what even an unmodified Lemmy logs.

        (Actually this instance is running a fork right now, or rather a branch: 0.19.6-beta1, because lemmy.ml is the core Lemmy developers’ instance for testing beta code before releasing production versions.)

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        3 months ago

        Many Lemmy instances block VPN posting. You can view, but not vote or post. I have a secondary private VPN I use sometimes for that. But honestly the whole thing just sucks.

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      3 months ago

      ActivityPub does not share your IP with other instances, but of course, like all websites, your home instance can see your IP.