YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 2772 points –
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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: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

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I downvoted the beans and I don't care who knows about it. I'd do it again.

This is useful to know though, thanks. I guess assume everything is public short of your password (unless your admin is particularly nefarious and has altered the code to store passwords in plaintext for some reason).

Probably safer to assume your password is public to

Nah because if you type in your password it will show as stars.

******* see?

hunter2

Unless you’ve changed your password I can see it. It’s hunter2

ILoveBeans42!!

Did it work?

Edit: shit.. it didn’t work, how do I change my password??

Looks fine to me. When you type it, you see ILoveBeans42!! because it's your password, but I just see **************.

...so you see, it wasn't me who upvoted all those Justin Bieber posts, my password was hacked!