YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private - eviltoast

Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but maybe we should provide some unix tools which help people delete data from their server. Imagine someone is upset at an admin. So they post cp to the server as revenge and then immediately report the server to the FBI. The poster puts themselves at risk, but it’s much easier to avoid that risk than it is for an admin.

    The unix tools can become the base for an actual admin interface, but I don’t have the time for all that lol but scripting something that:

    1. Finds the offending post in the database
    2. Deletes any images in the post from the pictures foder
    3. Deletes the row from the DB

    That wouldn’t take too long.