sinnerdotbin

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[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Praise your local admins! And help them out by petitioning them to study their local laws and come up with proper policy and TOS

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're almost there.

Only if your home server remains unfederated. Even then other users of the server will be able to see everything. And will be more likely to remember, like miss Busy Body.

Uh, a, if not the primary point in my post?

Your IP, your email, will remain private at your local if your admin is responsible. If you act to your comfort level in your engagement, you will remain private in the public sphere.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

If you self host, or find an admin you have incredible trust in, you should remain untraceable if you manage your engagement responsibly.

Though another thing I highlight in the policies is this is experimental software. Leaks can and will happen. We have a voice and can play an active part in preserving that privacy.

Recorder is always on by default with your engagement; recorder is always off by default when it comes to things that automatically identify you. It is the opposite in a monolith service.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hell, our phones know more about us and how to exploit us than Lemmy ever will. I do appreciate your post but I just think that it’s a product of the ‘connected’ world we live in.

Yeah, awesome. That is another thing I am raising awareness of. What this actually protects you from, being tracked and profiled. That is an amazing feature of federation getting lost in data safety.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Booo to miss Busy Body.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It does to many, thus the awareness of how it works here, that is all.

If you don't think it matters, or you understand enough to be sure never to expose yourself in a way that you are uncomfortable with that is awesome! Many are waking up to a realization of the nature of things here they were previously not aware of, and some are growing very uncomfortable with that now that they can't adapt their previous engagement to that knowledge.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I don’t think the word “privacy” is a good word for the concept. I believe “user data control” or “right to be forgotten” is more appropriate for the “deletion issue”. However, there are few privacy issues such as instance admins having access to private messages and the potential for a hack to expose users e-mail addresses and usernames.

This has been debated, and is very dependent on the context. It is a very broad concept to try to address and the lines do get blurred on the definition of what is "private data". The hope here is to partition the responsibilities of the admin from the user.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too! The world is different now.

Existing social media never really gave you a real edit/delete button anyway either. It’s all anonymity theater. The reality is that your data was always being scrapped and archived, somewhere by someone. This is just a reality created by digitization and virtually free recording/copying. No specific digital medium was ever going to protect you from this.

I explain the distinction to federated in the post. It is very different than a scrape or archive.

In the early days of the internet, everyone knew to use pseudonyms and not share personal information. We seemed to have forgotten this lesson. Maybe it’s time to relearn this lesson. Life is full of lessons. Let this be just one more.

Exactly. I am bringing awareness back to this.

No one should fool themselves into thinking they can use a pseudonym and not eventually doxx themselves accidentally if they have any level of engagement. People have grown accustom to being able to somewhat reverse that mistake. Many are also not accustom to their interests, their votes, and their voice is all retained, in one, easily digested and public place.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I explain the distinction in the post. It is very different on a platform designed to distribute at instant of hitting submit.

Also...

I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me.

Surprise! They very easily can here.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

When you shout in a town square, does everything else you've ever shouted, everything you've ever voiced your support for, everything you follow closely echo and remain in that square?

Again, this is a feature. But one people really have to understand before they engage here.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I have had concerns about this since I joined. Personally I don't mind that the votes are public and can see a case for it, however the wider community is doing a very poor job of informing the users how this all works, and that will result in very bad outcomes.

Lemmy (the wider community) privacy does stink (and how to change that)

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same on Fold 3.

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