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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: Obligatory RIP my inbox.
For as much as I love Lemmy, its obvious that it is an early software. Mark my words, that’s not the last privacy threat it will experience.
While I think Lemmy is great, I honestly have a somewhat bad feeling about how some of it could play out in the future. As far as privacy and data-slurping, I mean.
People have burner Reddit and Twitter accounts for posts or votes they think could bite them in the ass, so why wouldn't they do the same on Lemmy?
Obviously, but this info might extend to emails and such as well.
It's important to be aware that unlike reddit employees who are liable to their company and the law, some rando with a grudge isn't, and there's very little recourse if they choose to abuse their access.
It's not that it's intrinsically bad to do this, but it's something that should be clearly explained and signposted to the users.
ETA: Apparently account details are only on your "home instance", so pick your home instance well I guess.
On Reddit and Twitter most people would presume that admins aren't going to be making attempts to correlate those accounts and that those platforms would have checks in place to prevent such abuse.
No such checks exist within Lemmy. Some people are already using this data to correlate bot accounts and activities. It certainly has the potential to correlate burner accounts with mains. Being that anybody in the world can be an instance admin that's a lot more potential people who could abuse the data in such a manner.
Then use Tor if you're truly scared
If you are doing anything tgat could get you in legal trouble on the internet, only use acounts that can not be linked to your real life identity, and always use tools like Tor. Do not depend on tools like private messages, private voting, etc. In those cases, there is always someone who can give you away, and service admins will give out information when the feds come knocking.
huh. neat