Adding the ability to hide your post history is an awful feature.
Made spotting trolls a lot harder
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Meh. It’s a required feature at this point. Someone has stalked me on lemmy too.
At some point people started taking the internet beyond seriously. As if every random thing that’s mashed into the keyboard is tantamount to sworn affidavit than must be held up to scientific peer review.
It creates far more issues than it benefits. Hiding enables bad actors much more so than not hiding does, as it allows them to more easily disguise their history of bad faith arguing.
I find most hidden profiles on redit have been religious fundies or libertarians.
There’s a lot brigading state subreddits to influence elections right now :/
Yeah I’ve been stalked and death threatened myself, but only here. Hurray for .ml users, alienating the world one worker at a time!
I’ve had someone dig through my comment history as well, the funny thing was everyone else in the comments was pointing out they were wrong.
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They did this to hide the bots in AI. It’s BS.
makes it ripe for scams and disinformation
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
History hidden from one’s Reddit profile is now hidden from
author:Reddit searches as well. This was not originally the case.
Once had a guy join a discord I was in, acted normally for a few minutes, interacted with the crowd, the whole jig. Then, out of nowhere, they start pinging me and posting my reddit history from like 7 years ago. Really weird. They got banned pretty quickly for doxxing.
The funniest part was that they were trying to shame me or something by posting comments I’d made on various NSFW subs and posts. Told them to keep digging, I was sure there was some good stuff in there. They got very upset over that lmao.
I had a guy suddenly start stalking me, following me around and posting rude comments in response to every post I made – his username was even a slight modification of mine. I was starting to get pissed until he posted “Mom always did like me better” and I realized it was my brother who had discovered my username while hanging out in my room.
And thats why I keep accounts separate. I don’t link anything to anything, I have different usernames on different services and whatnot. Even if someone somehow figures out my (now deleted) Discord and reddit usernames and starts spamming them to someone, I can just say “well thats not me lol” In that hypothetical scenario, I’d hope they people I spent time chatting with, would believe me and not the weirdo who started spamming someones reddit history.
But also, I don’t care. I try to be myself all the time, so at worst, the creeps will just be spamming stuff that I normally do/say.
I feel like most of those accounts with hidden history are bots
Bots or nazis. It’s real convenient that we can’t see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever
Yes. It’s not good for reddit’s business if you can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature
Which ironically makes it easier to exclude the bots since all of them will have the history hidden. Granted that will also exclude some non-bot accounts, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Reddit started with fake users. It has always been part of their culture and history. Of course they will allow bots to hide their post history. It’s the only way they get users to consistently post.
I mean I have mine hidden. Have wanted the feature for years. Really wish lemmy would add it, but so far they’ve refused.
It’s not possible due to how lemmy and federation work. Potentially your instance could hide it from their own web ui, but any other instance could just choose to not respect that flag and display your profile fully through their instance’s web ui. All the comments have to federate anyway, much like votes which are also not private at all through lemmy.
The only reason it’s even partially possible on reddit is because the only copy of your comments as data are on reddit’s db. They aren’t sent to other instances outside of reddit control because that’s not how reddit works. So when reddit hides it through the UI, there’s not another server to surface the comments. And reddit killed the third party API, so it’s not trivial to just ask the API for all comments from a specific user.
It is however, trivially easy to just use a search engine for results from reddit with the username in question and find all the comments manually. It’s a deterrant, not a real solution.
That’s fine, I’m well aware of that. There’s still a huge difference in having it visible by default
I had mine hidden because you say one controversial thing in the wrong community and they’re digging for dirt in comments from years ago.
But if I hide my history, I will not have the satisfaction of wasting the time of a belligerent no-lifer…
I don’t understand how that’s supposed to work, you’d have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, “hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled” isn’t going to turn anyone against you.
It really only affects people who don’t stand behind their words.
You overestimate the average persons ability to read what you’ve written and interpret the meaning behind it. I have no doubt that plenty of people will read your comments from years ago and nail you to the wall over some gross misinterpretation of something that’s not even remotely related to the topic at hand.
Some of it too is differing audiences/communities. You might tell a joke in front of your poker bros that you wouldn’t tell in front of your kids … and there’s nothing wrong with that.
They’ve also got 10 other accounts to start piling on and hitting the down arrows, then the rest of the thread sees who the target is and joins in.
How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we’re all kind of wide open to eachother
That’s just where the internet is now; everything is accessible. Your public data is scraped and your private data is sold.
Yes for sure, but you were talking about unhinged reddit profile detectives. I only ask because I have conflicted feelings and am trying to figure out how to be less worried about it here
This is just the nature of the format. I quickly learned the unsubtle art of not caring if random strangers don’t like me.
noooooooooooooo we hates the panopticon 😖 I want to upvote unhinged stuff
Small correction: Piefed no longer obsfucates votes.
Really? How recently was that? Do you mean like fuzzing the numbers like reddit or can they be scraped by lemvotes now?
Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the “voting account” behind the scenes.
I don’t know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.
Just double checked, you’re right. It can still scrape piefed votes for users. I think maybe the way piefed url’s work isn’t automatically compatible with the format lemvotes needs for individual posts. That’s why I thought they were obscured
The option to hide post history here would be nice, but the culture here isn’t one that encourages users to dig through each others post history anyway.
Lol nah, one cant get within a meter of a political conversation without people digging through every comment to find something to quote out of context.
Thank you for pretending!
This is why I regularly go through and delete my history. Yeah I know a lot of it is recoverable if someone really digs or especially if they’re actually recording me specifically but I can at least make it harder to do casually. I just wish there was a similar tool to powerdeletesuite for reddit but for Lemmy.
Why not just do make alts? Every now and then I look for something just to find deleted answers.
It’s a lot of effort in a fedi that wants emails and other verifications as signup criteria. One server I had to write an essay for.
Email is almost universal, but do you have to be on an instance that requires a whole essay? I think I got my account pretty easy.
There’s a lot of different requirements a lot of different places. although I did buy an email from a provider that offers multi addresses so maybe I’d better make use of that. idk. maybe. I’d also then have to keep track of which things I post to which accounts.
I get the need for privacy given how many people have a habit of stalking or digging through post history for malicious purposes, but it also removes a lot of accountability. Accountability is equally as important, given that people turn into monsters without it.
I had one guy who was a real fucking creep go through my post history. So I honestly understand wanting it to be private.
imo if you don’t want it to be public, don’t post it publicly on social media
Nah eat shit don’t victim blame asshole.
tbh i don’t get why 4 people downvoted your comment here, my above comment was inconsiderate and victim-blamey
thanks for pointing that out
there has to be a better solution other than expecting others not to access public information
- (auto-)delete posts after a specified amount of time
- drawback: non-casual creeps can circumvent this by archiving posts
- separate online identities with multiple accounts for different purposes
- drawback: online identities can be traced from each other if you’re not careful
- or what i already suggested: only post stuff online that you’re comfortable with everyone seeing
- drawback: you have to hold back on what you post online
i personally use a mix of 2 and 3
- (auto-)delete posts after a specified amount of time
A fellow helldiver eh? For democracy soldier
This is an anti feature to hide bots and trolls
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I think that’s more because no one really cared about disqus. It was just a solution for comments on news articles and blogs, right?
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