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.

  • sauerkraus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Why does the person have no problem sharing their address with the DMV but gets upset when their address is leaked publicly? Curious. They claim to value transparency, but oppose doxxing?

    • kennydidwhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Is this sarcasm?

      The DMV is government-regulated and has a legal duty to safeguard your data. Unlike the corporations we were happily discussing before you decided to try out as Ben Shapiro.

      • sauerkraus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Corporations have a financial interest in safeguarding your data. It’s not valuable to advertisers if it can be gathered for free.

        People enter into contracts with individual entities regularly without expecting that any rando could join at will.

        • kennydidwhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I really didn’t expect to have to read this corpo-apologist BS here.

          You’re sick, please get well.

          • sauerkraus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Capitalism causes enough actual problems that you don’t need to make up more. Making your data available to businesses is marginally more secure than publishing it freely.