Could it potentially be enough to find location - like even if not city, then state or at least country?
And ofc not just these Nicole pics, but any pics at all, across the entire Fediverse. Worse, upload it via posting to a small community with like 5-10 subscribers and get the IPs of all of those who see the content (by downloading the image from your self-hosted server), then correlate with comments in it to map to usernames (I mean narrow down the list to those 5-10 accounts).
I suppose it is fortunate that there aren’t any totalitarian regimes anywhere in the world that might be interested in keeping tabs on who isn’t using corporate enshittified platforms… Like surely Musk won’t deny visas to people in the USA who use Lemmy, r-r-right??? (Or deny employment even to people working for corporations that even so much as have a contract with the USA government, regardless of whether the person in question is actually working on it or not, or are even aware that their company has such contracts at all?).
I think we may need to expect the worst, moving forward, then be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t happen, rather than 100% count on the best happen for certain, like our very lives depended upon it.
@rimu@piefed.social how does PieFed fare in this regard?
This makes me worried to click on certain post titles that I’ve seen lately… Edit: on the bright side, PieFed doesn’t include words in its titles, just numbers, so that might offer a bit of protection, for keyword scanners built to work for Lemmy.
Would using a proxy be sufficient?