Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.
TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.
You’re using personal software like Lemmy on your company phone?
No, I was asking if you did
That was my response. You shouldn’t be doing personal tasks on a work phone. Has that ever been a thing corporations wouldn’t immediately fire you for? VPN or not, NSFW or SFW, don’t browse Lemmy or other social media on your work devices. Ever. Depending on who you work for, it could even be highly illegal, especially if it’s a government job.
Eh, my work explicitly states we can use our work laptop for personal use as long as it doesn’t interfere with work. We can even install software if we want, but there are a lot of security features that ensure you can’t put anything wonky on there.
That said, I usually steer away from social media on my work laptop, except some highly moderated and text-focused places like resetera.
A lot of people really just don’t get this. I had to explain to a couple people they can go look at basically anything they want as to what you’re looking at. Less is more. We have an app on all company phones called lookout that monitors everything including GPS than you can’t turn off. I hate it. I have to keep my phone on when I’m at home too so I extra don’t like it.
Yes there has ever been a corp that wouldn’t fire you for that. Everywhere I have worked actually. They just warn you that they can see what you are doing.
There’s some at mine that don’t even have a personal and I don’t get it. You leave and have to change your number and deal with all that crap plus if you have to have an account sent you a text.
They told me that was an option an I was like Fuuuuck no, I keep that shit separate. I still get calls on my work phone when the previous guys kid needs to be picked up from daycare.