At it’s basic level it will capture your IP address, but it won’t really tie the IP to a user name, and there’s not a role lot you can do with it
Attacks I can think of:
target advertising at users in a particular lemmy community
get a collection of IP addresses of people with specific problems or beliefs (indicated by membership in a lemmy community) to target with malware
A VPN would protect you in this case, but you need to be a bit of a privacy nut to also protect yourself from things that identify for advertising right now
At it’s basic level it will capture your IP address, but it won’t really tie the IP to a user name, and there’s not a role lot you can do with it
Attacks I can think of:
A VPN would protect you in this case, but you need to be a bit of a privacy nut to also protect yourself from things that identify for advertising right now
If you wanted to target a specific user, you could always send a DM with the image
You could also correlate time of your log entry to order of comments sorted by new, with errors from the few clients that don’t load images