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Anon argues on reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 35 points 7 months ago (26 children)

I had mine hidden because you say one controversial thing in the wrong community and they're digging for dirt in comments from years ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we're all kind of wide open to eachother

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Small correction: Piefed no longer obsfucates votes.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Really? How recently was that? Do you mean like fuzzing the numbers like reddit or can they be scraped by lemvotes now?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the "voting account" behind the scenes.

    I don't know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Just double checked, you're right. It can still scrape piefed votes for users. I think maybe the way piefed url's work isn't automatically compatible with the format lemvotes needs for individual posts. That's why I thought they were obscured

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That's just where the internet is now; everything is accessible. Your public data is scraped and your private data is sold.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yes for sure, but you were talking about unhinged reddit profile detectives. I only ask because I have conflicted feelings and am trying to figure out how to be less worried about it here

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I don't understand how that's supposed to work, you'd have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, "hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled" isn't going to turn anyone against you.

    It really only affects people who don't stand behind their words.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    You overestimate the average persons ability to read what you've written and interpret the meaning behind it. I have no doubt that plenty of people will read your comments from years ago and nail you to the wall over some gross misinterpretation of something that's not even remotely related to the topic at hand.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    "hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled"

    This would never work. It actually would 100% lead to being mass downvoted. Not just reddit, but here too.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    exactly. I wonder sometimes at comments. People seem to have limited experience with other people here, and are overly optimistic about how reasonable and kind people are.... they are not. especially not in a social media setting.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This is why I regularly go through and delete my history. Yeah I know a lot of it is recoverable if someone really digs or especially if they're actually recording me specifically but I can at least make it harder to do casually. I just wish there was a similar tool to powerdeletesuite for reddit but for Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Why not just do make alts? Every now and then I look for something just to find deleted answers.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's a lot of effort in a fedi that wants emails and other verifications as signup criteria. One server I had to write an essay for.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Email is almost universal, but do you have to be on an instance that requires a whole essay? I think I got my account pretty easy.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    There's a lot of different requirements a lot of different places. although I did buy an email from a provider that offers multi addresses so maybe I'd better make use of that. idk. maybe. I'd also then have to keep track of which things I post to which accounts.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The option to hide post history here would be nice, but the culture here isn't one that encourages users to dig through each others post history anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    speak for yourself. been here two years and i have had multiple people stalk my history and quote me about shit i said in unrelated communities to prove how 'evil' i was. shit's wild.

    almost always out of context, but when you are a hammer everything looks like nails.

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