I appreciate the support with you sharing. It does seem Lemmy got confused as I cannot see mine. Was going to cross post it a little but took a break to scratch my head!
You mean following a legal order that any company would have to do?
You were wrong. I had no idea!
This is game changing!
It's definitely a good barometer of activity, and the initial signs are good.
If we can just get some beanless content, we should be flying :). (Downvote me y'all, Karma don't exist)
I think the awareness is the main thing. I don't like and use those platforms like Twitter, or Mastodon. I assumed it was private like Reddit. Many would also.
Except if you live in Saudi and you voted in support of gay rights. Or HK and voted something negative of China, or if you were a republican and voted something supportive of trans. Voting behaviour can be published to bring detriment to their users.
In the UK, the Labour party suspended members who voted for content from other parties (such as that they had recovered from covid) etc or for voting for content from groups that were proscribed later and they were excluded from the party for this sort of stuff. They had previously hired someone who previously worked for a company linked to the Israeli state and potentially Mossad and they were using this knowledge to crack down on left wingers with in the party. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/02/lawyers-complain-to-labour-over-hiring-of-ex-israeli-intelligence-officer)
What people upvote is increasingly being highlighted and used as discreditation by association.
As the world becomes more digitalised, and this is used more and more, it becomes more and more critical. Maybe not for you personally, but for many.
Or the technology could just share the information it needs to share and not everything and anonymise the data ;).
That's a temporary workaround, but Lemmy isn't the easiest place to come into, and things like this just make it harder.
It's a problem I think Lemmy devs need to solve.
Not post, upvote. I find it interesting that you like Asian Babes (obviously you don't, it's just some information you wouldn't expect to be public or shared).
If a celeb joined or did a AMA joined and voted some stuff, they stuff could be made public quite quickly.
So no known user will ever have a desire to join. Malicious actors will dig out their votes and expose it publicly. Could be massively damaging. You cannot do that with other social media. Obviously those companies have that information, but they do not share it.
It's weird, as you said you didn't cross post it and I didn't, so I'm wondering if it did that because it's the same video?