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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
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If you wanted to target a specific user, you could always send a DM with the image
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