If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.
If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.
The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.
Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).
Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean, everything on the fediverse is public. All you need to do is scrape
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
That won’t provide registration email address, ip, etc, those are instance only afaik