I’m guessing we saw the same one, and that’s literally the only instance I’ve completely blocked.
Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Always in favor of taking power from mods that they can abuse and simply do not need.
The 1 “You think you can come into MY instance, and downvote ME?” post I read was 1 too many.
Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Was it midwest.social by any chance?
Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
No, vegantheoryclub.org actually
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s funny because I saw some initial comments made which then started this discussion. And what you’re suggesting was the intent. The issue as they (one of Lemmy’s developers) said was essentially frustration that their echo chamber had been pierced.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
On Lemmy the concern isn’t even mod abuse - it’s just how much user telemetry is pushed around in plaintext which makes me uncomfortable. I’m sure there are already instances which do nothing but listen to AP traffic actively building activity and interest profiles on Lemmy users. Say what you will, but at least on reddit they have to buy that shit. And if such a rogue admin is even a little bit enterprising, there are a bunch of potential IP deanonymization attacks possible by serving up content targeted to specific users during specific times of day. And probably a bunch of other shady shit I haven’t thought of.
Honestly it’s more than a bit suspicious to me that AP and Lemmy has put seemingly zero effort into mitigating this sort of thing.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
The version code hasn’t even hit 0.2 yet. Lemmy was founded by people who got banned from Reddit for being too toxic & extremist leftists, so went off to make their own replacement. They do what they like, and bc Rust is a difficult language to work with, not that many are willing to help.
Then after Huffman’s debacle, we started to see Kbin, Mbin, Piefed, Sublinks, and perhaps more - but none even as advanced as Lemmy yet.
But more to the point, that’s just the nature of an open network. Wouldn’t Wikipedia suffer from the same issues? Though less of an issue than a social media framework I would wager.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I like your funny words, magic man!
asymmetric@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The infallible Admiral Patrick perma-banned me from UnpopularOpinion for downvoting his posts. What a great guy - and by great guy, I mean twat.