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.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Ok at least y’all have that. Do you happen to know how much legal trouble you’d be in if your server did - temporarily - contain illegal images? Is that the sort of thing that - if you immediately deleted and worked with the FBI, you wouldn’t get in trouble? I’m considering starting an instance for me and my wife because we have slow internet but - if we cached everything in an instance at home - it would be über fast. But I’m worried about the legality.