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.

  • gsa32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    789·
    1 year ago

    Redditisms are cringe and always have been. Yes I agree we should leave them behind.

    • JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.ukEnglish
      3610·
      1 year ago

      Well, I disagree. Redditsms, or whatever you call them, among other things helped to make reddit as popular as it is (was) right now.

      I get you don’t like it personally, but your personal opinion about them being cringe, while respectable, is not a fact.

      • Bene7rddso@feddit.deEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        I agree with both of you. We should leave redditisms behind and create lemmyisms. And yes, they get cringe if overused

        • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Possibly relatedly, is this a good place to mention beans? I have not figured out where that meme actually came from, but apparently it’s a thing the cool kids are saying.

    • Chriszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      206·
      1 year ago

      Yes all the bad Reddit jokes and unoriginal lame attempts at garnering upvotes eg making a stupid joke out of a typo (generally unfunny, rare exceptions), I also choose this guy’s wife, take my upvote you bastard, anything along the lines of wow I hate you for making a pun, I’m not crying you are, I feel personally attacked and god knows the list goes on and on

      Hopefully these things aren’t just replaced but one can hope