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Accessible user info by instance owner? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by veeesix@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

due to the nature of federation, nothing on any of these services is private.

I had a feeling this was the case, thanks.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You didn’t need to go with feelings; it’s clearly spelled out when you sign up and in the settings for messaging.

Lemmy is designed to be public and is not meant to be used for private messaging.

What the Fediverse does is gives you control over your profile so it can’t be held hostage by a single entity. It’s still up to you to keep private communications private and segment your accounts on a per-server basis to prevent aggregated analysis of your interests and activities.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I tried it out, and there isn’t a warning message when using a third party app like Voyager.