That is really concerning. Activity Pub should have a mechanism to hide those. If by any chance, one’s identity is reviled, their entire behaviour history would be out in the wild. The more one use an account, the more information is getting shared. Social engineering is a real thing.
The only way is it be absolutely private by not interacting (lurkers), which is not good for a social media like Lemmy or by changing accounts often.
It can be blocked at the instance level by an admin defederating with them.
Now I’ll know which of you goons don’t like my jokes.
Nothing private about the fediverse
Except the ability to register an account without any personal details. Which makes it completely private if you want.
says me, and my army of alts.
/s
Narcissists hate it, everyone else loves it!
I get really surprised going through my up- and downvotes. Seems sausage fingers and mobile app leads to interesting votes sprinkled in with the ones I’ve actually voted for.
Pretty neat layer of obfuscation, though I can’t imagine being interesting or infuriating enough for anyone to go through my voting history.
If it were to happen, I hope it’s because of some shitpost of epic proportions.
There was another instance that revealed all the data by post/comment. Far more useful to see if s post is getting brigaded, etc, or to see maybe if you have a wierdo stalker.
I just can’t remember what the instance was.
Yeah, every once in awhile I check my starred pages just to see what random things got fat fingered onto it. It’s mildly amusing.
Seems like a fantastic stalking tool for anyone looking to check if you have been a model of social media purity. I’d be shocked if it got used to find derisive upvotes by authorities looking to screen individuals for political reasons. But hey, call me paranoid.
If you’re really worried about that, there’s no reason why you need to have your private details associated to your account. You can even have a “clean” main account for show and a “real” secondary account.
Your votes being public is only a problem if your account can be associated with you.
I don’t get it. Is this the Lemmy version of Reddit’s karma?
Just gives me a 404 error for any of my own stuff I try to look up.
Same here
Check the link you paste into it. If it has “lemmy.link” at the beginning, cut that part out.
Good to know. I keep jumping between instances during outages and I’m worried in upvoting stuff twice
