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Does Lemmy or the server instances you're on log and retain IP addresses? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 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.