Have my own instance running and took a look at the database myself, figure i could answer some of your questions regarding to Lemmy in general. Lemmy doesn’t collection user’s ip address, unlike reddit. There is no user behavior tracking as of now, and i don’t see any third parties data collection based on my knowledge. User passwords are encrypted with Bcrypt which is one way encryption with no known weakness so far, the value in database is irreversible. This is standard practice. Basically admin has no way to know your password. The private message is not secured as Lemmy would warn you. Lemmy encourage server to use third part secure message service.

u/Saftiig will be on SS Mod ban list soon if not already.

Welcome to the free world!

Well if you are here, you probably already know what you want.

For me it’s transparency and accountability, and freedom of speech!

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