I will use this to find my many enemies.
YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse
Submitted 6 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I know this is how the fediverse works, and how it has to work. But maybe we shouldn’t be advertising this right now when the right is trying to dox people and get them fired for liking a kirk meme.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 6 months ago
Does it show how an individual votes, something has been voted or both?
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Both
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
unless they’re defederated or blocked by gregtech.eu
jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Justas@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That is really concerning. Activity Pub should have a mechanism to hide those. If by any chance, one’s identity is reviled, their entire behaviour history would be out in the wild. The more one use an account, the more information is getting shared. Social engineering is a real thing.
The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting (lurkers), which is not good for a social media like Lemmy or by changing accounts often.
Mniot@programming.dev 6 months ago
If by any chance, one’s identity is reviled, their entire behaviour history would be out in the wild.
So close to a sweet meter. What do you think of
“If, by some chance, one’s handle’s reviled / their foul history would be out in the wild.”
? It’s not perfect. Probably just a little more work-shopping.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
identity is reviled [I assume revealed]
The fact that most instances permit external image hosting permits obtaining user IP addresses by posting inline images hosted on a server created by an attacker, then harvesting IPs there. I noticed when going through the code that Lemmy, as of 0.19.4 has an option to protect users of a home instance by proxying images viewed there. However, it’s bandwidth-intensive and I don’t think that many instances have it on.
join-lemmy.org/…/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19…
Image Proxying
There is a new config option called image_mode which provides a way to proxy external image links through the local instance. This prevents deanonymization attacks where an attacker uploads an image to his own server, embeds it in a Lemmy post and watches the IPs which load the image.
Instead if image_mode is set to ProxyAllImages, image urls are rewritten to be proxied through /api/v3/image_proxy. This can also improve performance and avoid overloading other websites. The setting works by rewriting links in new posts, comments and other places when they are inserted in the database. This means the setting has no effect on posts created before the setting was activated. And after disabling the setting, existing images will continue to be proxied. It should also be considered experimental.
Many thanks to @asonix for adding this functionality to pict-rs v0.5.
I donlt know whether PieFed and Mbin presently have comparable functionality.
One major issue is that proxying the images will create more bandwidth usage on a home node, since they’re serving up all the images viewed by users of that home node — it’s more-expensive to run a node in that mode.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
No we shouldn’t. Anyone can create an instance and scrape whatever data.
Assume that all the posts and comment you make are public and linked to your real identity and don’t say things you wouldn’t say in person.
It’s a pretty simple concept.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This post might as well encourage people to go and harass them, it genuinely isn’t a good look for Lemmy as a whole.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shame, guess I can’t say categorising Palestine Action as a terrorist group is dumb.
carrylex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That is really concerning
The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting…
This is not a lemmy specific problem and basically applies to the entire internet…
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting…
I don’t know if this is news to you but this is not a lemmy specific problem and basically applies to the entire internet…
Hyphanet’s Frost can provide pretty solid pseudonymity.
But that comes with its own performance and functionality tradeoffs.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It can be blocked at the instance level by an admin defederating with them.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 6 months ago
Is it known what Lemmy instance is actually running that site? Even if it were widely known and most instances decided to defederated from it, Lemvotes is open source software that is made to be self-hosted. Anyone could revive the website by running their own instance.
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
Yes.
gregtech.eu is the instance.
piefed.social has defederated from it so any community on piefed.social will not be broadcasting votes cast within it to lemvotes.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t get it. Is this the Lemmy version of Reddit’s karma?
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I just joined but lemmy does not seem to have a running Karma total attached to each user right? Or is that just this instance that does not have that?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It doesn’t, which is refreshing. A lot of personal ego and insecurity is tied to those that care about how many upvotes they have.
My concern is that something like OP posted just brings that crap over here, albeit not in an integrated fashion.
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
AFAIK, you are correct, Lemmy does not have karma. Piefed has some sort of karma/reputation by account, but it seems geared more toward easing moderation than providing a status symbol, iirc
recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 6 months ago
Narcissists hate it, everyone else loves it!
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Now I’ll know which of you goons don’t like my jokes.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All me :P
mrdown@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nothing private about the fediverse
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Except the ability to register an account without any personal details. Which makes it completely private if you want.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
anonymous, not private. the two ideas are not the same.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 6 months ago
says me, and my army of alts.
/s
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Good to know. I keep jumping between instances during outages and I’m worried in upvoting stuff twice
Substance_P@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Seems like a fantastic stalking tool for anyone looking to check if you have been a model of social media purity. I’d be shocked if it got used to find derisive upvotes by authorities looking to screen individuals for political reasons. But hey, call me paranoid.
lena@gregtech.eu 6 months ago
The authorities could do this without Lemvotes, just set up a lemmy instance and voilà, you have access to votes
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
If you’re really worried about that, there’s no reason why you need to have your private details associated to your account. You can even have a “clean” main account for show and a “real” secondary account.
Your votes being public is only a “problem” if your account can be associated with you.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I just had a realization. A lot of content on the fediverse that we interact with is region specific. A user could have no identifying info in their comments or profile but still get doxxed because they upvoted a post associated with things like their job, their home state, places they frequent, medical conditions.
Do you suppose this got posted today because there is a doxxing project happening right now on 4chan?
Pissmidget@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I get really surprised going through my up- and downvotes. Seems sausage fingers and mobile app leads to interesting votes sprinkled in with the ones I’ve actually voted for.
Pretty neat layer of obfuscation, though I can’t imagine being interesting or infuriating enough for anyone to go through my voting history.
If it were to happen, I hope it’s because of some shitpost of epic proportions though.
credo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There was another instance that revealed all the data by post/comment. Far more useful to see if s post is getting brigaded, etc, or to see maybe if you have a wierdo stalker.
I just can’t remember what the instance was.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, every once in awhile I check my starred pages just to see what random things got fat fingered onto it. It’s mildly amusing.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good, hopefully someone will train an ai on them and offer me better porn!
cornshark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
AI generates porn of scantily clad woman scrolling and upvoting on lemmy