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Yeah, that's certainly possible, and AFAIK Lemmy doesn't really do anything to protect against it (they'd have to intercept any outgoing content fetches).
However, in order to do that, they'd need to make a honeypot account that posts to get that data. That's a lot of effort for a border patrol agent to go through on a quick stop, so they're probably only going to bother for specific targets. So unless you're targeted, they're probably not going to bother making an effort to gather that type of information. The big tech companies will just hand that data over (for a fee, of course), whereas the federated nature of Lemmy means your admin would need to do that, and I just don't think that's very likely.
That said, if you're worried about it, practice good OPSec. Use a VPN, burner email addresses, and don't post personal info (or if you do, post conflicting personal info as often as you post accurate info).
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