Just don’t say anything that you wouldn’t say in public. I’m willing to defend anything I’ve ever said here.
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socsa@piefed.social 5 days ago
A lot of people here still refuse to understand that Lemmy, as it currently exists, is a privacy nightmare, and the voting thing is just the top of the iceberg. There are several de-anonymization attacks possible involving dynamically serving different content to different users. This, combined with the public voting makes it possible that someone can dox an account and expose a lot more information than other forums where that information is more private.
Public votes also open the fediverse up to much worse astroturfing IMO. It's incredible feedback for bots and trolls to see exactly who is interacting with their posts and comments. It's frustrating that a bunch of people here have convinced themselves of the opposite, and insist that public voting is the only way to combat brigades and trolls, which is an incredibly shortsighted stance which doesn't scale nearly as well as it does in the other direction.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
socsa@piefed.social 4 days ago
Again, it's shocking how on this singular issue, we find "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" acceptable.
haroldfinch@feddit.nl 5 days ago
You mean to say:
"Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat auch nichts zu befürchten"
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
How quick we are to adopt the logical fallacy of Joseph Goebbels when we want to protect our creature comforts, rather than our privacy.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
I’d like if you didn’t tell me what I mean to say, thanks.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
What do you mean by dox here? I usually think of dox as being, real name, real address, etc. But I’m having trouble seeing how even my Lemmy instance admin could figure that out about me.
socsa@piefed.social 5 days ago
Nobody sets out to be doxxed, but it happens. And as it stands on the fediverse, when it happens the consequences are potentially even greater because all activity is available to all subscribers. All I am asking is for these simple facts to be acknowledged when we have this discussion. The potential risk profile for using Lemmy is greater than reddit in many ways. My frustration with how people approach this conversation is that they all too frequently dismiss or ignore this simple fact.
npdean@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Could you give an example of what else is a problem?
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
iirc someone got banned from like 25 subs because they downvoted a single post that said “I want YOU to generate more AI slop” and the mod got pissed and power tripped super hard