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Admins can see the IP address+request path, but is there anything in the logs that can relate an ipaddress to a username?
Theoretically you could infer that information by counting the number of times an IP looks at a profile page. If you assume the maximum count of a profile to be the IP users own profile. It wouldn't be fact but for a lot of cases that doesn't matter.
That wasn't really what I was paying attention to the last time I looked at the logs but going off memory no, you can't.
The Lemmy logs are very privacy friendly which is good most of the times but a tragedy when someone posts illegal stuff to your instance and you have no way of tracking them down.