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.

  • OverdueSandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree as in “we need to assure anonymity” although I find complete transperency better than corporate overlords deciding what happens with your data

    now atleast you know that everyone that does want to know the information is going to get it [so you can behave yourself ;) ]