However… consider the… uh… “charter” for the instance:
Kolektiva is an anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!
There’s some action to the anti-establishment and individuals on the site may have participated in violent activities.
They’ve got a peer tube instance too - https://kolektiva.media/ … and want to make a bet if any of the accounts on the mastodon instance are the same as the ones on the peer tube instance and if any of the videos on there are incriminating… and you’ve got the email address and IP address of the person logging into the account which can then be used to identify them.
The admins won’t sell us out to the feds is one thing. The admins won’t work on an unencrypted version of the database that exposes personal information (and get raided) is another.
Working on a backup of live data without sanitizing personal information first is a risk that every DBA at a big company lectures the programmers about.
Email address, IP, and posting information.
However… consider the… uh… “charter” for the instance:
There’s some action to the anti-establishment and individuals on the site may have participated in violent activities.
They’ve got a peer tube instance too - https://kolektiva.media/ … and want to make a bet if any of the accounts on the mastodon instance are the same as the ones on the peer tube instance and if any of the videos on there are incriminating… and you’ve got the email address and IP address of the person logging into the account which can then be used to identify them.
The admins won’t sell us out to the feds is one thing. The admins won’t work on an unencrypted version of the database that exposes personal information (and get raided) is another.
Working on a backup of live data without sanitizing personal information first is a risk that every DBA at a big company lectures the programmers about.