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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 [email protected] to c/youshouldknow

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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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[+] IrrationalAndroid 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] Koordinator_O 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I never get why people are so protective about their Emailaddress. Just have a spammail account for such instances. If it isn't a important website or service like banking or whatever -> Spammail account. only login for verification and then let the spamming do its thing in there until you need it again. If it gets hacked you lose only unimportant stuff if any.

[–] IrrationalAndroid 2 points 2 years ago

It's just that email addresses are often linked to the owner's name and I don't feel too comfortable knowing that it's in cleartext and easy to access without knowing it beforehand. Your advice is good though.

[–] ComeHereOrIHookYou 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed, I use email alias services (Simplelogin, duck) whenever I sign up to a new service. Easier to control spam messages just by turning off the alias instead of having to manually add them to spam filters.

Then as a bonus, if a service the alias under in gets hacked. I just need to change passwords plus the virtual credit and debit cards. Ease of mind

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not all instances require email to sing up, I'm signed up without one.

[–] IrrationalAndroid 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh whoops, I deleted my comment almost immediately but it seems like you could see it and answer anyway. Yeah makes sense that it's not an all-instances thing, it was very weird UI-wise because it said "optional" but then the address still came back when I left it empty, saved and refreshed. Seems like they might have forgotten to remove the "optional" label (or remove the requirement, either of the two).