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.

  • AncientMariner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Not post, upvote. I find it interesting that you like Asian Babes (obviously you don’t, it’s just some information you wouldn’t expect to be public or shared).

      • OmniGlitcher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        Ah yes, because the practical option is to be constantly switching accounts and instances based on what you want to look at for 5 minutes each.

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

          I find it’s possible to be logged into two instances on the same browser, so it doesn’t need to be more difficult than switching tabs. (That may change, I don’t know whether it’s technically desirable, but if it’s relevant to someone’s interests…)

      • AncientMariner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s a temporary workaround, but Lemmy isn’t the easiest place to come into, and things like this just make it harder.

        It’s a problem I think Lemmy devs need to solve.

      • fuckyou_m8@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        OK so let’s tell the regular user “hey come to lemmy, but don’t forget to keep multiple accounts because here everyone can spy on you”

        That’s not a good message