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Accessible user info by instance owner? (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by veeesix to c/main

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Before joining Mastodon I remember reading about how instance owners could potentially have access to their user’s chats and messages. I don’t think I ever saw this about Lemmy, or at least never looked into that much. Is that also the case here? How much info is accessible by the owners here?

That said I love the service and am happy to be here lol

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[–] Shadow 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

EDIT: An example that comes to mind is the ongoing copyright infringement news that the IP addresses of Reddit users discussing piracy should be given up to film studios. Do Lemmy users have any kind of protection when lawyers come knocking?

If provided with a court order, we could theoretically provide:

Email address
Record of all comments / posts made by the user
Incoming/outgoing DMs for the user
Voting activity made by that user
Communities subscribed to

(I think that's everything off the top of my head)

IP addresses are not logged in the db or linked to a user, but if the RCMP shows up with a warrant and says "We want all IP addresses that submitted a comment at 09:11:43am PST Jan 16 2024" then I'd be able to get that from the access logs. Access logs are only stored for 14 days and then purged, DB backups are taken daily and stored for 30 days.

[–] veeesix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for going back and replying to my edit. I had trouble searching for an answer like that, so I really appreciate the response.

Do you happen to know any particular resources that discuss federated privacy?

[–] Shadow 2 points 1 year ago

I don't, sorry.