Does self hosting an instance of a federated service, like lemmy, effectively act as a VPN for your account?
This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
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and messages are unencrypted. I think lemmy does not save the users ip. If they do they dont "broadcast" it at least.