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YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by muddybulldog@mylemmy.win to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)...

What you see via the UI isn't "all that exists". Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see "under the hood". Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won't normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

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[–] Bill@lemm.ee 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I downvoted the beans and I don't care who knows about it. I'd do it again.

This is useful to know though, thanks. I guess assume everything is public short of your password (unless your admin is particularly nefarious and has altered the code to store passwords in plaintext for some reason).

[–] vynlwombat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Probably safer to assume your password is public to

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah because if you type in your password it will show as stars.

******* see?

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

hunter2

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

That's neat. I didn't know IRC...err... Lemmy did that.

[–] YoSoyConfundo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Holy shit I'm old 😳 bash.org was funny back in the day, though

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Doesn't look like stars to me.

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Huh. I guess you must have the same password.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's because it's your password. It looks like ******* to me

[–] Retirix_YT@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Unless you’ve changed your password I can see it. It’s hunter2

[–] ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

ILoveBeans42!!

Did it work?

Edit: shit.. it didn’t work, how do I change my password??

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks fine to me. When you type it, you see ILoveBeans42!! because it's your password, but I just see **************.

[–] ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Whoa… that’s so cool! Thanks Bill!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wait a minute...

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

...so you see, it wasn't me who upvoted all those Justin Bieber posts, my password was hacked!

[–] Distributed@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Its not, all passwords are salted and hashed

[–] Distributed@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Its not, all passwords are salted and hashed

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

I respect your right to be wrong about the bean meme.