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.
Yes to IP address. Your location info depends on what is knowable from the address (VPN location is not knowable).
I don’t think Lemmy logs your views directly in postgres, but nginx can be set up to log all the traffic, so I would say yes, it could probably be reconstructed by a determined instance owner, although it might take a little basic scripting to do so.
Don’t do anything you’d be uncomfortable about explaining in view of the above.