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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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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.