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.
If you just run a VPN things like zscalar will still get you. They’ll just send the web traffic through the VPN to their proxies and still log everything you do.
There’s ways round it, but all of them will no doubt violate corporate policies.
The only real solution is not to use work computers for non work use.