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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by muddybulldog@mylemmy.win to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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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[-] Wander@yiffit.net 659 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To anyone surprised at this: welcome to the fediverse, please treat everyhing you do or say as public.

The way to achieve privacy around here is by following the long forgotten arts of the old internet before Facebook was a thing: use a Nick name and don't tell strangers on the internet your real identity.

Your home instance will act as a proxy and only they have access to your email and IP address. That does stay private.

So, as long as you trust your home instance to not leak or disclose your connection or sign up data (which would be illegal in EU countries), just sign up with an alias.

A very positive aspects of this is that it should allow us to detect voting manipulation by correlating the activity of certain potentially malicious actors. If Lemmy instances take vote manipulation seriously and do their best to block bots this has the chance to make Lemmy / Kbin much more transparent and credible than Reddit ever was.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 196 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol. kids these days would psot their bank info online if the banks didn't prevent them from doing so.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 162 points 1 year ago

You say that like A/S/L wasn't a thing back in the day.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 115 points 1 year ago

19/f/Cali was the only acceptable response

[-] Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone 63 points 1 year ago
[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Depends, could I have talked some vanilla WoW gold out of you?

[-] assembly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As I put on my robe and wizard hat…

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago
[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

puts on wizard’s hat

[-] time_lord@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Even back then we were told never to reveal that sort of stuff online. How many of us do you think were telling the truth?

You think someone would do that?

Just go on the internet and tell lies?

[-] mookulator@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃

[-] sauerkraus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yall remember those “your stripper name is the street you grew up on and your pet’s name” challenges? Literally phishing for password recovery keys.

[-] fleabomber@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Randy_Bobandy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Flagrant System Error

Computer Over.

Virus = Very Yes

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 34 points 1 year ago

I don't want to shame anyone, but I've had people sign up give me their full DoB and offering to show me their ID. I know of people who disclose their id to get access to nsfw discord communities.

[-] RivenRise@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

DUDE MY GIRLFRIEND FUCKING DID THAT AND I JUST LOOKED AT HER AND ASKED HER IF SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. In hindsight no, thankfully she's gonna be moving soonish. This was from before we were together, otherwise I would have warned her not to do that. It was the same discord she got a cyberstalker from, thankfully the stalker wasn't a friend of the owner because otherwise he totally could have gotten her address and irl info.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there a twitter account that retweeted people posting photos of their credit cards?

[-] cats@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am your grandpa

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

19/f/Cali is the only acceptable response

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

So would a significant portion of the population of all ages

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