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.

  • @mtnwolfEnglish
    28•1 year ago

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    • @CosmiquesEnglish
      30•2 years ago

      The things I upvote and downvote are in line with my personal values and I am not ashamed of that.

      Sounds an awfull lot like I have nothing to hide therefore I don’t need privacy. The goal of crypto etc is to design protocols that allow you not having to trust anyone. I don’t want to trust anyone, and I don’t.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        Bit crypto does that by publicly recording all transactions on the Blockchain, this is kinda the same thing in that it’ll not just about being told ‘in total sixteen people agree’ and having to belive spez that he hasn’t just invented the number, it’s seeing who voted and how.

        You can of course have more than one account and keep your identity private similar to crypto where your transactions are public but the owner of the walker can be private

      • @mtnwolfEnglish
        3•1 year ago

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    • @R51English
      17•2 years ago

      it isn’t about you, it’s a security risk and a massive vulnerability leaving servers open to data collection for data they shouldn’t be collecting.

    • MuddybulldogOPEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      Not everybody shares the same habits.

      Here’s a scenario… Some admins are using data to build correlations between accounts. Linking main account to alternates. So far that I’ve seen the purpose has been to identify bot activity. A good thing.

      The same analysis could also be used to build correlation between a main account that’s hard right leaning and an alt-account that may be sympathetic to left-leaning or progressive topics, such as LGBTQ+ rights. Not so much a good thing.

      I think it’s fair to say that many people will not consider the fact that, literally, anybody in the world can have access to much of this data. It’s not limited to your two or three instance administrators.

      • @mtnwolfEnglish
        2•1 year ago

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        • MuddybulldogOPEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          I don’t agree that there’s been no pushback with regards to Facebook. Plenty of privacy advocates dissuade people from using it at all.

          The lack of anonymity with regards to the upvote/downvote thing is just one example of things that might not be obvious to the typical user. Another would be consideration for people who moved away from Reddit so they would “stop slurping up my data”. Thing is, the way the Fediverse works, pretty much anybody in the world can slurp up a much of the same data.