We are in a world where big data is being collected and stored and analyzed by AI for every activity on the Internet, as well as an era of creeping global authoritarianism, and you are confused by why some people might be concerned about leaving an extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they vote? Or rather, why they might strongly prefer that not be public?
Yes. I do not see how it’s any different to the existing extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they comment, nor why they should be treated differently.
Also, the way the ActivityPub works, that record exists whether or not the general public can see it. Reddit or Fediverse, the creeping global authoritarians can access to that record. At least if the public can see it, and is aware that it’s not private, they might think twice about what they vote on, if they’re that concerned about it.
I would argue that if you think you’re a target to the creepy global authoritarians, what you upvote or downvote on the fediverse should be the least of your concerns. Your comments are far more likely to compromise you than your votes. Yes, as @smeg@feddit.uk points out, if you’re upvoting/downvoting things in location specific communities, it might narrow the search field, but that’s all the more reason to make people aware that this record isn’t private on any platform (right now).
Making it truly private, from what I understand, would require a monumental change to how the fediverse works, and I just don’t think it would add enough value to be worth it. We’re not talking about elections here. 99% of the time we’re talking about wether or not I agree that RA3 was redeemed purely on the fact that it gave us some amazing Tim Curry gifs
Essentially, I just think that making it easily accessible to the general public will do more good than harm, and making it truly private is more effort than it’s worth.
I don’t buy that it’s easier to dox someone on the fediverse than it is on reddit JUST because you can see what they’ve upvoted, and If you want to be engaging with dangerous political content, you should be protecting your account as a whole and treating everything you do or say as being accessible to bad actors. It’s the age old adage: If you want it to stay private, don’t put it online
Making it truly private, from what I understand, would require a monumental change to how the fediverse works, and I just don’t think it would add enough value to be worth it.
Huh, that’s an interesting approach. It’s still not truly private though
The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account by anyone other than your PieFed instance admin(s).
So it the same situation as Reddit where the record still exists, and you’ve just got to trust your admins not to sell you out.
If you’re truly worried about it to the level the other comments are suggesting, you’re still better off treating them as public anyway.
Really my issue is I just cannot wrap my head around why people are treating votes as more sensitive than comments. That’s really backwards imho. I think the only people protected by having votes be so private are the people abusing them
We are in a world where big data is being collected and stored and analyzed by AI for every activity on the Internet, as well as an era of creeping global authoritarianism, and you are confused by why some people might be concerned about leaving an extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they vote? Or rather, why they might strongly prefer that not be public?
Yes. I do not see how it’s any different to the existing extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they comment, nor why they should be treated differently.
Also, the way the ActivityPub works, that record exists whether or not the general public can see it. Reddit or Fediverse, the creeping global authoritarians can access to that record. At least if the public can see it, and is aware that it’s not private, they might think twice about what they vote on, if they’re that concerned about it.
I would argue that if you think you’re a target to the creepy global authoritarians, what you upvote or downvote on the fediverse should be the least of your concerns. Your comments are far more likely to compromise you than your votes. Yes, as @smeg@feddit.uk points out, if you’re upvoting/downvoting things in location specific communities, it might narrow the search field, but that’s all the more reason to make people aware that this record isn’t private on any platform (right now).
Making it truly private, from what I understand, would require a monumental change to how the fediverse works, and I just don’t think it would add enough value to be worth it. We’re not talking about elections here. 99% of the time we’re talking about wether or not I agree that RA3 was redeemed purely on the fact that it gave us some amazing Tim Curry gifs
Essentially, I just think that making it easily accessible to the general public will do more good than harm, and making it truly private is more effort than it’s worth.
I don’t buy that it’s easier to dox someone on the fediverse than it is on reddit JUST because you can see what they’ve upvoted, and If you want to be engaging with dangerous political content, you should be protecting your account as a whole and treating everything you do or say as being accessible to bad actors. It’s the age old adage: If you want it to stay private, don’t put it online
Piefed does https://piefed.social/post/205362
Huh, that’s an interesting approach. It’s still not truly private though
So it the same situation as Reddit where the record still exists, and you’ve just got to trust your admins not to sell you out.
If you’re truly worried about it to the level the other comments are suggesting, you’re still better off treating them as public anyway.
Really my issue is I just cannot wrap my head around why people are treating votes as more sensitive than comments. That’s really backwards imho. I think the only people protected by having votes be so private are the people abusing them