• aski3252@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What do you mean with “tracking” exactly? The way I understand it, tracking is analysing and using user data, for example for marketing purposes.

    Posts and content need to be saved on the instance as far as I understand, I don’t see any other way. And posts and comments are essentially public information, anyone can see the posts that your username posts and comments, that’s kinda the entire point of posting and commenting.

    Up and down votes too, otherwise I don’t see how the concept of up and down votes could work. The server needs to know which comments or posts you upvote, otherwise it doesn’t register it. And theoretically, the server admin could track that information and make statistics based on it, although this is potentially where legal issues come in if it’s not properly explained what is done with your data.

    Same with metadata stuff and data such as which posts you access/read. The server has to know that information, when you click on a post you want to read, you are essentially asking the server to provide you with that post, so the server has to know which post you want to read and this is generally logged on the server for a certain time.

    The question is does the server keep and archive this information and/or is this information used and analysed by somebody.

    According to the admin, data is not sold or used for marketing purposes.