So the mastodon.social privacy policy is ok, but if I were the maintainer I'd avoid recording any IP addresses. One thing to consider is that when you're a meganode both state and non-state organisations will become interested in your logs and will try to obtain them either explicitly, with goons showing up and making threats, or also less explicitly with implants and exfiltration or NSLs and gagging orders. If you don't record IPs then in the worst case there's not much that third parties can get.

Another factor to consider is that the demographic of fediverse folks probably includes a higher proportion of non-normative views and lifestyles than you might find in the silos. These non-normative people are precisely the groups which the really bad guys always seek to target. So as maintainer you should be concerned with your user's interests and practice metadata minimization which can limit any potential damage.
@bob I heard that the service was partially hosted by Online.net and if it's not their NL datacenter, it's their FR ones. And the French law says 1 year of IP logs retention :/
@radiolaria This is why self-hosting is a good idea. Also when there are laws pertaining to logs I would scrutinize them carefully to see precisely what is being mandated and for how long and under what conditions disclosure can take place. Often the people making those laws are technically incompetent and so don't really know what data they want.