What kind of garbage title is this? Is OP a bot?
But yes, reddit allowing people to hide their history has been a huge boon to scammers and other disreputable people proliferating on the site.
I feel like it was meant to be a reply but somehow ended up as a post
Yo. I’m new here on Lemmy. Was recently banned on Reddit. Have just been surfing a few posts to get the rundown on how Lemmy works vs Reddit.
I seen someone on here saying they didn’t have to provide an email to sign up here, but I did? What’s that about? It almost put me off signing off completely to be honest as i’ve been trying out Mirage a lot lately also and they operate differently entirely. No personal information required at all. So when I decided to give it a go here it threw me a bit.
Anyone any idea?
It ranges from “present a thesis about our ideology” to “password optional”. You can run your own instance too. The whole federation thing is a pretty cool concept, I suggest looking into it a bit vs just thinking of this as a reddit alternative. Yeah there are apps and frontends pretty much identical to reddit, but it’s a very superficial similarity
I’m tech illiterate so please don’t just trust me on this but I think that has to do with the instance you join
Interesting. My fault for not checking to be sure. Assumed from what I read I didn’t need to give it.
Have been trying Mirage also and it asked for nothing when signing up which to me is great. Always try to be privacy focussed with these things is all.
It depends on what instance you signed up to. Different instances have different sign-up rules.
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I’ve never seen such a public announcement, and I’d argue that they probably want the reverse of that. They want it because they want user history to be most available, in general. (EDIT: see article linked below)
Also, “curation” tends to be something else entirely IMO, which typically involves picking & choosing subs to subscribe to and making various settings in RES, such as blocks.
I’ve never seen such a public announcement, and I’d argue that they probably want the reverse of that. They want it because they want user history to be most available, in general.
There’s no announcement as such, but reddit users can now hide their comment history - and many of them do so now.
Yup, I’ve been doing that for a while now. It’s not a new feature, but maybe it happened in the past few years?
Idk when it came in. They probably announced it on their site somewhere when it came in.
Ironically enough, I’d argue the fact that public profiles are forced to be public on the Fediverse is going to be more offputting to your average user compared to the complexities of federation.
I did a little digging, and it looks like it went live on June 3rd, last year. [Announcement] So yeah, whoops-- it’s a little more recent than I thought.
As noted, however, it’s not broadly called “curation”; it merely falls under such user option tools. “Curation” is a much wider set of options that can apply in multiple ways.
Btw, thanks for ObscureMusic. Didn’t know about it, but just subscribed!
EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?
About profiles being public on the fediverse, everything’s possible with enough will. And if someone’s willing to chase another someone down, I’d imagine there’s enough will to track down everything that is shared by this other one. And I can think of some rather feasible ways that tracking can be done anonymously.
For sure.
I kind of hand-waved the issue away, above, but I fear you’re absolutely correct.Indeed, it’s really not that hard to imagine some programming being put together (perhaps aided with a bit of AI), to absolutely track down and dox just about anyone using careless little hints we typically leave behind when we assume we’re being relatively anonymous, online.
And then, if a bad actor, using password-breaking tools to cause all kinds of mayhem, even possibly breaking in to our online banking accts and so forth. But also, if a govt entity, gaining all kinds of info and insight in to our lives.
It’s actually kind of terrifying, and the tools for such already exist. I guess Palantir’s already doing so…?
Wouldn’t doubt intelligence services from who knows how many countries are keeping an eye here, or even companies such as Meta (even if in their case, without Threads). Maybe an ill-intended individual or a monitoring entity doesn’t even have their own instances.
Well, since lemmy doesn’t require an email addy, I, for one, am not too concerned.
hold the fuck on a second. why did I have to give an email when i signed up?? it actually almost put me off entirely. I’ve been using Mirage the last few weeks and it didn’t ask me for anything when signing up and seems much more privacy centred. This was after being banned on reddit. are you telling me you didn’t need an email to sign up here?
I did not. Caveat: I signed up on reddthat.com and lemmus.org. (It’s actually kind of cute: “What if I don’t want to give you my email?” “Great! You don’t have to! We don’t even want your email!.”)
I note that something called the lemmyclub does demand your email.
Yeah, it’s not curation.
EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?
It’s not a widely opposed aspect of the Fediverse currently, but if a wave of Redditors came here - given how many choose to hide their profile, many 100% would complain.
Probably to prevent crawlers indexing information for AI. This way only reddit has it.
I found it very funny that Reddit was bitching about some LLM scraping “its” content. It’s not reddit’s content, it’s our content.
