Fedibridge

And that's easier on the fediverse than any other social media platform

This seems to be a big misunderstanding, if we're talking votes and participation then you are right, but participating data is but a fraction of the data collected by all other forms of social media. Websites can track:

• Login and usage times
• Ip addresses
• Every single action that is made, clicked, viewed, etc

And with apps they track

• Notification data
• Local network
• User behaviour
• User engagement
• And depending on the given permissions much more

I own my instance, therefore I own the all of the data that could be tracked. Yes my participation is synced with the entire Fediverse, but nothing about my usage and behaviour is.

Let’s say we create a new Lemmy server, for the purpose of illegally datamining users data. What data can we get?

• Public up/down votes
• Public messages posted in communities.
• DMs if send to a user on our Lemmy server.
• ??

Do we have the users IP? Email? Browser fingerprint? Can we use cookies to track the user?

Oh i agree. Though i think it's less likely to happen here (might not be for long though, nowhere is safe :( )

Edit I was talking about data like IP addresses, and cookies. I feel it's fine that admins can see what you do on your account since it kind of has to be public.