I don’t think everybody knows that and at least here on Lemmy, it doesn’t show it by default like friendica. The fediverse doesn’t necessarily mean that all data has to be public. It’s just that it’s way harder to have a sense of truth without public data.
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Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The whole concept of the Fediverse as social media is that all the data is public. Stop acting like these servers are giving out private data.
TacoSocks@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I know, but some people assume votes are private.
smeg@feddit.uk 4 days ago
If you’d only ever interacted with Lemmy and not read up on how ActivityPub works then that’s a reasonable assumption, it’s not like anything (that I’ve noticed!) actually tells you that your votes are public, and they don’t look to be public in the places you’re likely to see!
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not good practice. Really one shouldn’t be assuming anything is private or some entitlement to privacy on a service where all content you post is made publicly available to any and all linked instances. They miss the point of a federated public forum. If one wants privacy, data must be kept locally only. That’s why Lemmy has local-only communities, the “private” community aspect that many people want just won’t be federated, because you can’t make something like this private otherwise.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I know, but most people don’t.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I know, it’s a really big problem here and on the Fediverse in general because people get so outraged and entitled over something that just is the way things are, this wouldn’t work any other way.