Besides it's a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don't understand how the fediverse work and what I'm asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user. How to avoid vote brigading on here? Can it be automated?
I'm not pissed and I do know I post literal shit sometimes. It's just I'm wondering, if our fedieverse have machanics against that.
I think you should stop worrying about pointless internet points that don’t matter to anyone.
Vote brigading matters. If you're subscribed to a 'controversial' community and every post gets downvoted to oblivion, you and other subscribers who sort by 'hot/top' won't see the post unless they go directly to the community.
This slowly kills the community, even if its users are active on Lemmy.
This happens period in hive mind communities/instances.
Which is why I only sort by new
Still, very easy to miss a post from a small community when you've got many other larger subscriptions.
But everyone doesn't sort by new. So something like this matters.
I'm not sure what you think I was saying.
I was saying that I sort by new because this happens when not enough people do. I'm stating that I hope to do my teeny, tiny part to reduce the affect.
It that’s what it takes to kill a community, that community wasn’t going to last long to begin with.
I'm not. I only care about it at times if I'm not sure if my edgy joke lands right.
The problem is, here I want to stay anonymous. If I share an unique meme from c/risa on some other network e.g. discord, or even phone number-attached TG\FB\IG\whatever, reverse image search and then going to the upvotes makes it easy to narrow it down to who I am here. Easier, than watching packet sizes of said images via ISP or breaking into my phone\PC, and it can be done without any paperwork.
I'm yet to say something worth a notice on this or other accounts, I haven't shared secret schemes of warplanes like they do on WarThunder forums, but I'm very dissatisfied with how my state's doing, and there are laws making my critique a criminal offence. Yeah, right, they are this fragile. It won't stop me, but it concerns me that we, as Lemmings, think it's not that public, but kbiners see upvotes, instance admins see both, and a federated instance by your local CIA-thing can vaccuum it into their database once federated.
Compared to Reddit, Lemmy is better. But while Reddit needs to accept a request from authorities before giving up this aspect of one person's internet life, Lemmy requires a pretty simple data-mining server, and it'd suck in everyone's history.
I think it's inescapable with all this federating stuff. But it is a thing to keep in mind.
All social media by nature isn't. You can only try to not make it associable with your IRL identity
IMO public vote data is a small price to pay for not being targeted by ads and followed all over the internet, considering the alternatives are non-federated ad platforms that watch how long you spend scrolling, looking at specific items etc, altering your feed & suggestions to make them more money…
Just be mindful of what you post - sign up at an instance located overseas, don't interact with communities for your geographic region, don't post pictures. Won't stop a subpoena, but layer Tor on top and the origin is unknown. Won't stop data mining, but if there's no geographic hints in your post history they are SOL IMO