I find it pretty funny these days how often I see people getting paranoid about their IP address when back in the 90's/early 2000's it was common to show other people their own IP in chat rooms or on forums to scare them and it didn't work because most people understood it didn't matter.

[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It still seems pretty stupid to most of us. It's still common knowledge that knowing someone's IP is meaningless, it's mostly kids and the technologically inept who don't understand this in my experience.

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago

Why is it meaningless? It can be very dangerous for people to know your IP address - especially if you're one of the many people who are "scared" of it (because the dangers pertain mostly to them).