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.

  • astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    I think those users who live under oppressive governments should be used to using tools like Tor and accounts with a proton email to interact on the internet.

    • RyanHx@vlemmy.netEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Fair point. Though if nothing else stripping out usernames from vote counts would maybe save some bandwidth or database queries for the instance.