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.

  • s4ifEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    I think the in the current implementation, your post views is not public. But any data you have is still accessible to your instance admin.

    • @PutangInaMoEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      I’m about to self host, sounds like a great move towards data privacy and ownership.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•1 year ago

        Nope. Everything you do is sent to all other instances. If you upvote your instance sends that upvote to the instance where the community lives and that instance broadcasts your vote to alle instances that subscribe to that community. Every instance operator can see the upvotes.

        • @PutangInaMoEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Well then nevermind! I need to go read about activity pub protocol.

        • s4ifEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          At least your password hash not accessible by anyone but you… and your dm is also only accessible by your recipient and his/her admin… 😅

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        Would be awesome if you could just install an application onto your machine to be self hosted from

        • CALIGVLAEnglish
          9•1 year ago

          I mean, you can, that’s literally the definition of self hosting.

          • @[email protected]English
            8•1 year ago

            While you’re 100% correct Lemmy would feel pretty slow running on your normal computer unless you keep it online and powered on 24/7. Since Lemmy fetches new content continuously and being offline causes a big backlog which will take time to process. It also presents a few extra challenges since you need a domain and cert and a home static IP isn’t super common which means you need dynamic dns and have to set that up. Any restart where you get a new IP will be even slower since you need your updated A host record to propagate before your Lemmy instance can fetch the backlog. Those issues aside though you could absolutely just run it like any dockerized application on your normal computer.

            • HTTP_404_NotFoundEnglish
              5•1 year ago

              If your lemmy goes offline- there is a good chance it WONT catch-up.

              Servers only retry sending content so many times. ActivityPub PUSHES, rather then pulls mostly.

    • @vinnymacEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Not too bad then, at that point it just depends how they handle log storage on the instance you are visiting.

      Thanks for clarifying.