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.
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”
You’re totally right and that was a dumb oversight on my part. Please forgive me, OP.
Nah, you’re good. Lemmy is still new stuff. 👍