Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

  • RCMaehl [Any]@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Non-textual content (media, and icons I believe) is still served from the other instance to prevent all federated instances from exploding in size.

    Additionally, some browsers will preload/prefetch links to “improve the browsing experience”