subignition

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[–] subignition@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago

If you are particularly concerned that you're going to be identified IRL based on your participation online, you should be changing your identity frequently rather than using the same account for a year+.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Throwaways / burner accounts remain a thing that are available for both positive and negative use cases.

In case you're not aware, all your activity via the ActivityPub protocol is already public - it's just that the details are hidden by some front ends. It is already possible for anyone motivated to check your post from a federated instance that displays full vote details, or to host their own instance and receive the raw voting information from places they're federated with.

Yes, you can have communities with higher moderation standards, Beehaw is a great example -- but those are local moderation standards, it does not stop the general public from seeing what's going on as onlookers.

IMO it's no different than most message boards in the earlier days of the Internet. You are pseudonymous, not anonymous, and when you consistently participate on an account, that identity is going to develop a reputation based on how you participate. Upvotes and downvotes just cut down on the kind of low-effort "this", "love this post", "fukkk u omg" replies that would add noise to threads in those days.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Moderation logs are already public.

Standard disclaimer that you're gonna find objectionable content in there, browse at your own peril.

On your instance it can be found here: https://lemmy.today/modlog

[–] subignition@fedia.io 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Lemmy was never designed to be private in that way, nor was ActivityPub. You should expect the things you post publicly on the Internet to be public.

[–] subignition@fedia.io -2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You should be reporting and then blocking a user that harasses you in that manner. Those tools are available to you for a reason.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Your votes are already public and have been since you joined. There is just a slight barrier to entry to viewing the details that aren't shown on frontends.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

Right, that is what I meant by "inconsistent from one page to another". The received posts would be in an unfiltered state on each page and so the order could be very different depending on the local blocklist, probably resulting in stuff like the top of page 2 having a higher score than the bottom of page 1 pretty frequently.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Would the client not be able to sort the received posts after filtering? Granted things could be fairly inconsistent from one page to the next. Or maybe something like "Score: 0 (blocked: 1k)" to indicate the proportion of activity being taken out of consideration?

Definitely not confident that this is a good idea or anything btw, just spitballing

[–] subignition@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

It would be very cool to have something like this from a data analytics perspective. Similar tools have existed for other platforms before.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Fedia displays details on up votes but not down. Which is slightly a shame because I'm mildly curious if the single down vote I get on ~70% of my comments is from like one guy I pissed off at some point. At the same time I don't care enough to work around the system, so maybe it works?

[–] subignition@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You could do something like send a list of user IDs who voted, and have the client do the filtering locally with its blocklist. It would consume more bandwidth instead of computational power but probably wouldn't scale very well

[–] subignition@fedia.io 57 points 3 months ago

It's a little-known fact that guys can noclip when they're horny enough

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