There have been a lot of news articles lately about a concentrated movement to get people fired for making social media posts critical of Charlie Kirk. I’m wondering how effective such an effort would be against Lemmy, where many of us provided an email address when signing up.

Not being an admin, I’m curious if our email addresses tied to our users names are stored in a database that only the SJW admins can access - or if anyone creating their own instance would have access to the same database

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    2 days ago

    Each instance’s database contains the email addresses of local users only. Lemmy does not share email addresses between instances.

    Viewing users’ email addresses requires directly querying the database. They are not visible through the API.

      • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 days ago

        I believe user IP addresses are stored and correlated with a user’s session token. Those tokens are valid for a while. The database does not have a post-by-post record of a user’s IP.

        Disclaimer: I am not one of the admins with direct database access, so I cannot confirm that this is true. My statement above about IP addresses is secondhand information from memory. I may be wrong.

        I should leave this to the professionals:

        https://lemmy.world/post/4754397/3291219