• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    You don’t have voting privacy here on Lemmy though, and theoretically instance admins could “punish” you based on voting patterns.

    But decentralization helps that

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      If an instance becomes oppressive, nothing is stopping you from going to a new one. You can’t do that with Reddit. Let’s say my instance Lemmy.ca becomes awful, I can make a new account on another and still comment on this community. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
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        On the other hand, harvesting that sort of data is as simple as creating an instance and Federating with whatever sub you want to spy on

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          whatever sub you want to spy on

          Is it really considered spying if the sub is pretty much shouting the information freely to whoever wants to request it?

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            If I post to a public website in a plaintext protocol and my ISP also intercepts+logs that transmission, is it spying since the post was public anyhow?

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          I mean any organization that’s a risk to use my data maliciously is one that can afford buying it, so I actually prefer this to my data being equally easy to access but reddit gets paid for it.

          • phx@lemmy.ca
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            My comment isn’t too say that Reddit is good, but rather that we might be able to do things on Lemmy a bit better for user safety/privacy. Aggregating upvotes to an origin seems good to me

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      They already do, some instances or communities will ban you for downvoting everything.

      Which is kinda fair, why are you here if everything displeases you?