This image probably shows your IP address
This image probably shows your IP address
And it's the reason why proxying media through your Lemmy instance is important. It is not yet implemented though:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2947 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1036 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/54
If you consider your IP address private info, use Lemmy with a VPN, until this issue is resolved.
I personally don't do anything with data received from requests to that image endpoint, except make an image and send it as a response. I will take that endpoint down when the issue is resolved (or after some time).
If post images are proxied, there's still inline images that potentially make arbitrary requests:
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