Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.
- Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance?
- is there a log of my view history
- are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?
I do not want to be in a position where a Government creates an instance, and allows them to monitor.
Copying my reply of this exact same question to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support
You share your IP Address with ANY online service you interact with. This is how it talks back to you to send you content.
Not by default. However, enabling verbose logging on the webserver can indeed log this information. Just- not in a pretty way.
Anytime you comment, post, or vote, that data is stored in a database and sent to every other instance subscribed to the community for which you are interacting with, and then stored in their database as well.
So- tldr; lemmy isn’t really a privacy-focused place. Although, its honestly not much different then reddit. Reddit logs EVERYTHING you do, and then shares that data with third parties for the purpose of advertising.
Although, there isn’t anything in place in lemmy to prevent this data from doing the same thing. Silently, and without you knowing.