this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Is it just user activity that's public? Curious to know about what is preserved on the backend, like if user removed posts/etc get stored somewhere accessible like this too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I fully expect encryption to be intertwined here, at least on specialty instances. This can not stay this way, right?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm torn on this personally, I like the transparency and accountability aspect, but this could be used in a harmful way

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Well of course. The instance stores all data in a postgres database. How else will it be able to remember anything?

Maybe this is not obvious to non-programmers but you never see everything in the user interface for any system. There are tons of records needed for the system to track everything that goes on.

Since posts are federated, they will exist in the local db as well as on each instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

It's not that it stores data, it's what data it stores. Your votes construct a very detailed profile that doesn't mean anything to another human but an AI can read it like a very simple book. They don't necessarily need to be so strongly associated with your account thanks to simple technology like hashing.

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