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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by muddybulldog@mylemmy.win to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] icedcoffee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Just commenting so this stays one of the most commented posts. Feel free to keep scrolling

[-] moonwalker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What about private messages? I assume the person running the instance can read all private messages.

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[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A government would only need to get its hands on one instance to havest downvote based dissent data.

Tbh I'd rather we had an up-only based vote system though. Downvotes had a lot to do with the reddit culture that I don't want taking over Lemmy.

[-] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I turned off downvotes and no karma in lemmy is nice. It's overall a friendlier experience IMO.

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[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

How often are we going to see this postage? I think this is the third time I've seen it at least

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[-] catch22@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is a good conversation to have, I'm assuming there are no security checks to make sure instances connecting to each other are legitimately released and code reviewed by the community? I'm also curious if you could run a malicious instance that garners a lot more information from your users than is necessary or uses security holes to gather information from other instances. This could send this entire experiment down the toilet very fast. For instance HTTPS guarantees you are connecting to who they say they are and are from a trusted source. At the very least it would be nice to be able to have control over your credentials and history, and only release it to trusted instances.

[-] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] irkli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

...and your point is.... ? Admins and sysadmins as a general rule can see everything inside the technical system begins the interface. This is not news.

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[-] Ech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How would one find this? Is it just a console command?

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 4 points 1 year ago

Queries directly against the database.

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[-] Boddhisatva@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Color me shocked. The only thing I'm wondering is why the name length needs to be greater than 7 for the query?

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