Your IP seems to have been blacklisted by Cloudflare and it thinks you’re a malicious bot. You’d have to get in contact with Cloudflare to get your IP unblocked.

Re-creation of someone else’s post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

If the original was removed, there’s probably a reason.

This “meme” chooses the dumbest reasons Linux is better when there are so many other options than “updates” and “old app”

The IP address is how internet traffic is routed. Every time you visit a website, you hand over your IP address. That’s just how the internet works.

Your client must connect to the other instances to view an image, and by doing that you give them your IP address.

There was an image going around recently that showed your user agent to show this issue.

Any software that doesn’t proxy media has this as an issue.

No, they don’t have any more privacy measures than any other instance.

Lemmy also has the IP leaking issue. Media isn’t proxied.

We must self host an instance to discuss self hosting instances to discuss self hosting the instance.

This community is just as bad as r/linuxmemes on Reddit. Half of it is just Windows memes, 30% is people going “Linux good”, 20% is this, and only about 10% are actual Linux memes

Disestablishmentarianism.

all Linux memes communities have been like this

Linuxmemes: the ultimate hub for Windows memes.