I recently learned that voting on lemmy is not anonymous. Anyone can get information about who has upvoted and downvoted a post or comment.
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.
Sadly, this is something where I would prefer Reddit over Lemmy. Big tech scrapes data from both places anyways, at least Reddit is safe.
Where can I see the IP address Lemmy ties to me?
Lemmy does make some attempts to hide your IP address, but everyone should know that any time you visit a website, that website gets your IP.
So of course your instance has your IP (whoever’s running it). And if you ever explicitly visit another domain, they’ll get your IP as well.
Admins have it. And by admin, I assume it is admins of all instances. And anyone can make an instance.
user ip adresses are not federated, only the lemmy.today admin can find your ip
IP addresses are not, and have never been federated. This may shock you, but any admin of any website can see what IP address you’re connecting from if you connect to their site.
In the server logs if you’re a admin.
even as a lemmy admin of a server you don’t to see that. you would need server / db access
