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I feel like most of those accounts with hidden history are bots
Bots or nazis. It's real convenient that we can't see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever
Yes. It’s not good for reddit’s business if you can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature
Which ironically makes it easier to exclude the bots since all of them will have the history hidden. Granted that will also exclude some non-bot accounts, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Reddit started with fake users. It has always been part of their culture and history. Of course they will allow bots to hide their post history. It's the only way they get users to consistently post.
I mean I have mine hidden. Have wanted the feature for years. Really wish lemmy would add it, but so far they've refused.
It's not possible due to how lemmy and federation work. Potentially your instance could hide it from their own web ui, but any other instance could just choose to not respect that flag and display your profile fully through their instance's web ui. All the comments have to federate anyway, much like votes which are also not private at all through lemmy.
The only reason it's even partially possible on reddit is because the only copy of your comments as data are on reddit's db. They aren't sent to other instances outside of reddit control because that's not how reddit works. So when reddit hides it through the UI, there's not another server to surface the comments. And reddit killed the third party API, so it's not trivial to just ask the API for all comments from a specific user.
It is however, trivially easy to just use a search engine for results from reddit with the username in question and find all the comments manually. It's a deterrant, not a real solution.
That's fine, I'm well aware of that. There's still a huge difference in having it visible by default