An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized.
  • @dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
    8•1 year ago

    thanks for the link, explains it very well. how bout my activity, like IP address, up/down votes, clicks on links, favorites and whatnot, is that federated around or how does that work, i.e. who has access to it?

    • Geronimo Wenja
      7•1 year ago

      Up and down votes are federated with your username, along with posts and comments (obviously).

      Clicking on links, favourites, email address (if you put one in when signing up), password and IP address are all only on your local instance.

      Basically, unless another server needs to know about it for federation to work, it’s going to be local to the instance you’re using.