Oh no, so my upvotes on c/spacedicks aren't private?
/s
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Oh no, so my upvotes on c/spacedicks aren't private?
/s
I agree that this is a good fit for YSK, however, I think it's important to keep in mind that privacy isn't a main goal of the system. It's designed to distribute the cost and responsibility and be difficult to take down or influence as a whole network, but it does not appear to be designed to hide user activities.
In fact, I propose that we keep this information publicly listed so that users are under no illusion that their interaction with Lemmy is private. Transparency and communication prevents misunderstandings.
If you want privacy on the fediverse, use an alias. It's as easy as that. This is akin to the old adage "don't tell your real name on the internet" which Facebook destroyed.
Wait, is there a granular way to give access to my information? Like say I don't mind people seeing my comment history but would like to hide what posts and comments I upvote and downvote.
If you ask me, I'd make upvotes/downvotes public overall. Always hated how on reddit some miserable people downvote lots of innocent stuff, hiding behind their anonymity.
Lemmy & Reddit are public discussion platforms, everything you do here should be public, it's not like you use them to store private information.
I think this is to be expected - some instances have downvotes disabled but that doesn't seem to be the rule of thumb.
There are quite a few questions about data retention, usage, retrieval, compliance and how it is shared which will need to be addressed as the platform grows.
Countdown for this to be monetised by someone.
I'm fine with it too. Don't think I'd be here if I wasn't okay with sharing these sort of things. If I wanted privacy for my upvotes or downvotes (why tho?), I'd do it anonymously.
And yeah, I upvoted the beans as well. Ate beans 90% of the time as a student. Still farting from it 20 years later.
Is it just user activity that's public? Curious to know about what is preserved on the backend, like if user removed posts/etc get stored somewhere accessible like this too.
I'm torn on this personally, I like the transparency and accountability aspect, but this could be used in a harmful way