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Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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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.
I like your funny words, magic man!
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.