Vlyn

Vlyn , 11 months ago to reddit in Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else

Use one of the scripts that overwrites your comments first. Just deleting doesn’t help one bit.

They also rate limit you to one action every 1.5 seconds or something.

Vlyn , 11 months ago to worldnews in Farmer ordered to pay after judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance

👍 can also be sarcastic, like your contract is so dumb, I’m not even properly replying to it. Such a dumb ruling.

Vlyn , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

But that has always been a thing. Just like Reddit mods banning you from their subreddit just because you posted in another subreddit they didn’t like. It sucks, but it’s nothing new.

If either a server admin or a community mod doesn’t like you for what you’re doing, they can kick you out. It’s the same as if this was an old time forum and you pissed off the admin.

With lemmy you have to watch two things:

1. Trust the instance admin you sign up with, this is where your account data lives, the admin can read everything on your account. Hell, even your password if they manipulated the instance code, so use a random one
2. Trust the moderators of the communities you interact with. If you interact with a community and the mods there don’t like you, they can just remove your posts for example. Same as with Reddit

A random person outside of your instance or communities you interact with can’t do much. They can “steal” your posts and comment data and see your votes. But that’s it. They can’t block your account or kick you out of your favorite communities. They could obviously harass you (just your account, not your email), but then you can block them. Or ask the admin to block their entire instance.

Vlyn , 11 months ago to fediverse in Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads

They might dip their toes in at first. But then you’ll have 9 out of 10 big communities/users on Threads (or probably 99 out of 100 if we’re realistic). And at that point if Meta defederates nobody of those users will care. Threads will become Twitter 2.0 and be its own thing, while Mastodon will be crushed with a tiny user base in comparison (which will get even smaller because most content is on Meta servers, so users switch over to Threads).

Vlyn , 11 months ago to fediverse in Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads

Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it’s not a blank slate.

After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0.

Vlyn , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

The moment you make votes anonymous (which would theoretically be possible) you open up a million ways in which votes can be manipulated. So congratulations, that ad post from some random company has 12k upvotes now.

Only alternative is still connecting it to a user, but only registering that they voted (but not if it’s an upvote or downvote, that’s anonymous again), but then you can never change your vote again afterwards. So if you misclick the downvote button there is no way back.

With the current solutions in place, if you want to remain anonymous: Don’t create an account, just lurk. Or don’t upvote/downvote/comment on things. It’s as easy as that.

Just like putting your real name online and then complaining when others can see it on Facebook… your account is as anonymous as you want to make it.

Vlyn , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

I mean I didn’t upvote or downvote porn on Reddit either. It’s all personal information.

On Reddit there were plenty of people with access and the data was sold to advertisers.

Here it’s public, not great but not terrible either. Also makes it easier to battle vote brigading?

Vlyn , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

Just don’t vote then? Reddit also told advertisers what you’re into, it was just over backchannels with money involved.

Or create an account that has no links to your private live, then you can vote as much as you want.

Vlyn , 1 year ago to nostupidquestions in how does my "neighbor" hear my private telephone conversations.

Bluetooth doesn’t make much sense, as you usually only have one device active. But you can easily rule this out: If you have Android for example, long press the Bluetooth button, then check paired devices. Is there any device you don’t recognize? Remove it. Done.

Bluetooth is usually encrypted, so if you didn’t accidentally pair your device with your neighbor’s there is no way they can listen in.

And even more important: Check for carbon monoxide in your home. You might be having health issues and are hallucinating or making things up.

Besides that: It might be possible your neighbor hears you talking on the phone (through the walls for example or with a bug in your home), but there is absolutely no way they’d hear the other side of the conversation. So either your side alone would already give them all the information or something else is up (see above).

Vlyn , 1 year ago to technology in LastPass users furious after being locked out due to MFA resets

That’s why I just use my own KeePass database synced over Dropbox. Zero issues, it’s free and nobody is targeting it. Even if someone got access to my Dropbox they’d still have to crack the encryption.

Vlyn , 1 year ago to reddit in Why is Reddit gatekeeping?

Just your browser already gives away a ton about you. See here: amiunique.org/fp

Out of 2,000,000 fingerprints my browser is unique (well, I do use Firefox). So in theory a website owner could identify me just based on that. No IP needed.