You don’t think this is a problem?

Stalkers stalking? 

 use a vpn? this is true of most of the internet, email, etc. 

 I do.

That’s not the point.

What % of users do you think use a VPN? What % do you think even know how to use one? 

 for images we can use an optional image proxy (not even web browsers do this), for relays we can use MASQUE (apple private relay)

it's not that its not solvable, but I think people exaggerate the issue. whats the threat model exactly? someone learns the rough geographical area that you're posting from? 

 I think most modern social-media websites won’t show a media file directly from its source link. There will be a proxy or a middleware in the website. 

 The main issue I see here is not privacy, but the fact that someone can “share” a media file (link to an image/video), and some users will see a different file if the server is malicious.

This could be solved if the event contained the sha256 of the media file, so clients could verify. 

 Looks like I'm in Europe? Never been. 

 Wait, you see a different IP?

So the photo is specific to the viewer? 

 Yes 😁 

 So, VPN work. Nice 🤣🤣🤣