Why does the person have no problem sharing their address with the DMV but gets upset when their address is leaked publicly? Curious. They claim to value transparency, but oppose doxxing?
sauerkraus
joined 2 years ago
There’s no need to complicate things by bringing crypto buzzwords into it. It’s already been solved faster, better, and easier just like everything else cryptobros invent a problem for.
It’s simple. Just don’t comment or upvote on anything that interests you.
That wasn’t publicly accessible. You could keep it between you and the admins.
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.
You don’t even have to comment to get profiled by upvotes. I’ve never commented or even subbed to a local community, but in the past I had occasionally upvoted.
If it was just the home instance’s admins having access to it that would be normal. Having it be completely public empowers doxxers of both the malicious and marketing types.
And it only matters if you care about operating in the jurisdiction of GDPR. Violate it as much as you want if you’re not located there.
I also was not expecting how Lemmy is different in that way. I was expecting it to be only accessible to the admins of a user’s instance.
Downvoting has always been an indicator that you disagree in some way. Whether it’s a disagreement with the substance or format never mattered. You’ll sometimes see people jump through hoops trying to justify how their form of disagreement is the only valid one though.
Each voter doesn’t need to know the choice made by everyone who voted. Trust is handled by the administration. The only issue online voting adds is that there could be a record tying votes to identities. So the system would have to either secure that record or detach the votes from identities after receiving.
You wouldn’t know that your instance is infested with tankies and fascists. You can’t see their posts because you’re on the block list.