edit:
just wanted to share a great observation that was made by UlrikHD in our admin channel:
"So if a company wanted to demand the ip of every member on a piracy community, they would have to contact every instance federated with that community then
good to know"
Instance owners would have way, way fewer resources and almost definitely need to just capitulate.
Assuming they even had the info to share, though.
You can offer access to Lemmy over Tor
Don’t browse lemmy with your naked IP. This isn’t the 90s. When using the Internet, wear a condom.
As long you don't do the "known illegal" stuff you don't need a VPN.
However if you upload copyrighted material a vpn is one of very many steps to ensure that the police won't get you. A VPN alone does not provide any security. It delays at best the police
Ah yes, give your browsing history to the shady VPN company instead.
Although that would help in this situation.
Shady? I only use VPNs from known companies, like Sony.
A VPN either:
Logs access/usage so it can be given to authorities. (And/or sold/stolen etc)
doesn't log usage data and willingly accepts that some disgusting stuff will be done using their service.
1 might have to give browsing data if sued by a media company, 2 is ethnically bankrupt and shouldn't be trusted at all.
Doesn't mean their not useful, just be aware of who you are giving your money to and the limitations of their protection.
At most you will get some targeted ads (if you use "free" ones), compared to fines and jail, I say it's a good trade-off.
So how would that work with Lemmy? If a company demands the IP of users?
Guess that depends on the instance. Mine will sadly have a technical issue which corrupted the database.
For our instance we've answered that here:
Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare?
edit: just wanted to share a great observation that was made by UlrikHD in our admin channel:
Instance owners would have way, way fewer resources and almost definitely need to just capitulate. Assuming they even had the info to share, though.
You can offer access to Lemmy over Tor
Don’t browse lemmy with your naked IP. This isn’t the 90s. When using the Internet, wear a condom.
As long you don't do the "known illegal" stuff you don't need a VPN.
However if you upload copyrighted material a vpn is one of very many steps to ensure that the police won't get you. A VPN alone does not provide any security. It delays at best the police
Ah yes, give your browsing history to the shady VPN company instead.
Although that would help in this situation.
Shady? I only use VPNs from known companies, like Sony.
A VPN either:
Logs access/usage so it can be given to authorities. (And/or sold/stolen etc)
doesn't log usage data and willingly accepts that some disgusting stuff will be done using their service.
1 might have to give browsing data if sued by a media company, 2 is ethnically bankrupt and shouldn't be trusted at all.
Doesn't mean their not useful, just be aware of who you are giving your money to and the limitations of their protection.
At most you will get some targeted ads (if you use "free" ones), compared to fines and jail, I say it's a good trade-off.