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An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized.
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.
I don’t think it was a cover. They could have just sent a subpoena for the data if it was hosted in the US.