• Muddybulldog
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    131 year ago

    Lemmy, itself, does NOT collect or store IP addresses. You won’t find this information in the Lemmy database/application.

    However, your IP address will be captured in the webserver logs themselves, which is typical for any connections to any webserver.

    • A10@kerala.party
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      1 year ago

      Admins can see the IP address+request path, but is there anything in the logs that can relate an ipaddress to a username?

      • Album
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        31 year ago

        Theoretically you could infer that information by counting the number of times an IP looks at a profile page. If you assume the maximum count of a profile to be the IP users own profile. It wouldn’t be fact but for a lot of cases that doesn’t matter.

      • Nerd02
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        31 year ago

        That wasn’t really what I was paying attention to the last time I looked at the logs but going off memory no, you can’t.

        The Lemmy logs are very privacy friendly which is good most of the times but a tragedy when someone posts illegal stuff to your instance and you have no way of tracking them down.