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.

  • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Which has been extremely helpful. It took me a second to have a grasp on what was going on here, but it was an almost painless switch for me, especially because of these tips showing up in my feed. I still scroll some of them because of the additional tips/info in the comments

    I feel like I’m kinda back to the forum-feel of when I lurked around SA; but this is way cooler imo. And everyone’s been really awesome here trying to make it work for all of us, so quickly. I’m a very appreciative new user!