• Hubi@feddit.de
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      Is it? As far as I know, identifying data such as IP addresses are not transmitted between instances.

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      oh no! they have all the posts that people publicly posted onto the Internet!

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        Maybe the thinking is that whatever that server was raided for may have been federated to other servers, making them also targets for FBI raids.

        Edit: Looks like the admin was raided for participating in a protest and the Mastodon instance wasn’t the target at all, in which case why did they take that data at all?

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          That’s why you get a big warning message informing you that DM’s are not encrypted and thus not secure.

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      Does anyone have a eli5 explanation/read/video of being federated? When I joined lemmy i thought it was lemmy exclusive thing, but now it seems being federated is a copy of your data shared among servers that multiple communities/applications use including outside entities, such as lemmy communicating w/ mastodon? Or am I way off? Any explanation would be greatly appreciated help me get up to speed.