The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rule 1- All posts must begin with YSK.
All posts must begin with YSK. If you're a Mastodon user, then include YSK after @youshouldknow. This is a community to share tips and tricks that will help you improve your life.
Rule 2- Your post body text must include the reason "Why" YSK:
**In your post's text body, you must include the reason "Why" YSK: It’s helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. **
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding non-YSK posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-YSK posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
If you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
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Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
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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.
Good to know but I always assume everything is public on the internet.
Couldn’t we just use a hash for the usernames instead?
Nothing too over the top, but just a simple hash and match that instead?
Also, there’s way too much trust in instances. Like, one person could easily make a post on lemmy.world, go on their personal instance, and just give themselves, say, 2000 upvotes.
Instances should have their own settings on what instances are allowed to keep a local copy. (Default behavior should be to get the post itself from the instance “hosting” it).
Wait, is there a granular way to give access to my information? Like say I don't mind people seeing my comment history but would like to hide what posts and comments I upvote and downvote.
I’ll just use my short username then
I agree that this is a good fit for YSK, however, I think it's important to keep in mind that privacy isn't a main goal of the system. It's designed to distribute the cost and responsibility and be difficult to take down or influence as a whole network, but it does not appear to be designed to hide user activities.
In fact, I propose that we keep this information publicly listed so that users are under no illusion that their interaction with Lemmy is private. Transparency and communication prevents misunderstandings.
If you want privacy on the fediverse, use an alias. It's as easy as that. This is akin to the old adage "don't tell your real name on the internet" which Facebook destroyed.
So any instance admin can analyze all users upvotes/downvotes and possibly derive political standpoints, likes/dislikes, opinions and location data from it
This is what lemmy.world tells me when I want to delete my account:
"Warning: this will permanently delete all of your data from this instance. Your data may not be deleted on other, existing instances. Enter your password to confirm."
Edit: So if we want to own our data we should only post, comment and vote within our own instance or just keep in mind that whatever we do on other instances might be there indefinitely.
Regarding your edit: that will only help if your instance doesn't federate. If someone subscribes to the community on your instance, all actions (posts, comments, votes,...) are sent to all instances with subscribers and saved there.
Holy shit. HOLY SHIT.
I just realized what this actually MEANS.
It means that when you like or dislike something so much that you unvote and then vote a second time, people can tell. This will change karma forever.
Back in my day everyone knew that once you put something on the internet it's there forever to be seen by all. Has everyone already forgotten this? This is nothing new and in fact the way it's always been! Now get off my lawn!