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

  • ShadowMA
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    5 months ago

    Lemmy is pretty light on activity logging, I’m not aware of anywhere that records user IPs. They also made some changes in a recent patch that moved user IDs from a get to a post variable, so I don’t think there’s a way to correlate hits in the access log with a particular user ID. (I haven’t looked into this in a few months, so my info might be slightly wrong)

    Basically what we can see is any content you post, even if it’s a private DM (or one you received). We can also see all your voting data.