I dunno about the way Lemmy stores data but I’m willing to bet a similar request could be made to a Lemmy hoster and as a regular person, most likely not a company, they’d be far less likely to push back. Wondering if a future evolution of the platform needs to be a little more anonymous (e.g. no IP retention, no email retention, optional ability to post anonymously while logged in).
Afaik lemmy doesn’t associate your account with your ip address. The webserver itself has ip log, but only associates it with user agent and url visited so correlating it with a particular user may not be trivial, or even possible in a busy server. Also, instance owners are usually pretty keen on reducing operational cost and probably probably won’t retain those log files for too long, or even not retaining them at all.
I dunno about the way Lemmy stores data but I’m willing to bet a similar request could be made to a Lemmy hoster and as a regular person, most likely not a company, they’d be far less likely to push back. Wondering if a future evolution of the platform needs to be a little more anonymous (e.g. no IP retention, no email retention, optional ability to post anonymously while logged in).
Afaik lemmy doesn’t associate your account with your ip address. The webserver itself has ip log, but only associates it with user agent and url visited so correlating it with a particular user may not be trivial, or even possible in a busy server. Also, instance owners are usually pretty keen on reducing operational cost and probably probably won’t retain those log files for too long, or even not retaining them at all.