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Lemmy privacy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone this is my first post here , I was just wondering , what if this antipiracy companies threatened the owner of this instance to share the details of users that are sharing piracy just like they did with reddit. But since this is a single person that is running it, it will be easier for this antipiracy companies to obtained that info? What data does this instance collect? What if the cease the server?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, there are not many details to share anyway (registration is just username/password, e-mail is optional). And since everything is federated, they'd need to bring down all of Lemmy, which may not even be possible for them due to different instances being hosted in different countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about IP address? Or device info? Probably they collect that data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't find anything about that over on GitHub, sorry...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A major issue in my opinion is cloudflare. It's horrible...

[–] lowleveldata 1 points 1 year ago

You're not safe anywhere on the web if you consider IP address to be sensitive. You'd have to use a VPN (and trust the VPN to not give away your info).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think what they are referring to is this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/judge-wont-force-reddit-to-identify-anonymous-users-who-discussed-piracy/

The concern is that since the operator of the instance is not a huge corporation, it would be easier to achieve. I would bet that it's possible for an instance operator to have ip addresses of their users. So, it is a legitimate concern.