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FBI claiming it's for non-Mastodon related reasons, but that could be a cover. https://kolektiva.social is still up
Regardless, I don't think they even have to ask to get this sort of data from any of the big platforms.
There was never any lag in service. I'm on that instance. I believe the person was raided due to their activism and had a backup of some data but not the actual server. They made an announcement and told people to change their passwords. Many lost a degree of trust but are being as transparent as possible with members. https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150
Yeah, what the fuck are you supposed to do? Ask the FBI to please come back later?
It's a good reminder for folks with concerns to not say anything on a platform that isn't end-to-end encrypted that you don't want folks finding out about, to not use an email you don't want associated with yourself, and to use some sort.of VPN or Tor if you need to hide your IP address.
And if course use unique passwords but I would really hope people do that already.