I’ve been in forums where upvotes were public. It’s not something that I expect to be anonymous by design.

That being said. If something is public, it should be clear that is public (and available to everyone), if it’s not it should be protected.

I think Lemmy should go one way or the other, or upvotes are public to everyone, or they are available only for you instance admins.

There’s something amusing about people feeling violated by their activity being made public, but not necessarily by corporations hoarding and capitalizing on that activity & data. I mean, one of them is out in the open. The other is pure abuse.

Does this let them see my bookmarked/saved posts? If not idc

Suppose there is someone who wants to maintain their anonymity and privacy on Lemmy so that it couldn’t be tied to their real identity, what do you think is the best way to do that?

Hmm, I, famous Hollywood actress Margot Robbie and star of “Barbie”, sure am stumped.

I mean essentially any decentralised type of social Media cannot work any other way. An open backend is not shocking, it is expected.

I think this is to be expected - some instances have downvotes disabled but that doesn’t seem to be the rule of thumb.

There are quite a few questions about data retention, usage, retrieval, compliance and how it is shared which will need to be addressed as the platform grows.

Countdown for this to be monetised by someone.

If you are doing anything tgat could get you in legal trouble on the internet, only use acounts that can not be linked to your real life identity, and always use tools like Tor. Do not depend on tools like private messages, private voting, etc. In those cases, there is always someone who can give you away, and service admins will give out information when the feds come knocking.

I’ll just use my short username then

huh. neat

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It shouldn’t be like that. I hope it gets changed.

Use Tor

I think this is a good conversation to have, I’m assuming there are no security checks to make sure instances connecting to each other are legitimately released and code reviewed by the community? I’m also curious if you could run a malicious instance that garners a lot more information from your users than is necessary or uses security holes to gather information from other instances. This could send this entire experiment down the toilet very fast. For instance HTTPS guarantees you are connecting to who they say they are and are from a trusted source. At the very least it would be nice to be able to have control over your credentials and history, and only release it to trusted instances.

So if one downvotes something and then removes that vote, does doing that removes it saying they downvoted or does it still keep it on record?

At first I agreed with the general “whatever” sentiment. It has some important implications, however.

It discourages people from voting if they’re concerned about other people seeing their activity. This could result in a lower quality of scoring for posts.