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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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Lemmy users dox a random person for fun (lemmy.nz)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A meme was posted to c/[email protected] with a partial picture of a driver's licence. The Lemmy users in the comments proceeded to post all the identifying information they could get from the license, including gender, date of birth, and zip code of the person's home. The meme is probably reposted and so this isn't doxxing the Lemmy OP, but that's what the users in the comments seem to think they're doing.

Collecting and disseminating someone's personal information is doxxing even if that information could be found anyway with enough time and knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

if Lemmings weren't going to do it, someone else would have.

This argument falls flat because if nobody does it, then nobody does it. It's not okay to do something wrong just because you believe it's likely someone else will later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I'll admit it's a shitty argument. Personally it's more that I do think it is wrong to post other people's IDs, but I don't think it's wrong to explain what the clearly visible numbers of a document mean, it's not hidden information like EXIF data or other things that require a lot of sleuthing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's okay to do something wrong just because you believe it's likely someone else will later.

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