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.
That’s a given. Who wants some VPN provider in south asia knowing you surf history? (same for DoH and Cloudflare btw) Just set up a private VPN in your router.