KombatWombat

Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear about that. Here's another post with some unrelated drama that mentions a few of their known alts:

https://lemmy.zip/post/32584584

Edit: Accidently hit send while I was drafting this, so sorry if you saw it before when it was chaotic.

You really want every post you've ever voted on archived forever by every instance on the fediverse? You don't see any deeper security or privacy concerns with that?

Well, with that history someone could certainly see small impressions of me, like what I like and dislike and how much I engage with different topics. I could only see that being used against my account in these ways:

1. For targeted advertising
2. To shame me to other users
3. To ban me from a community/instance for wrongthink essentially
4. To train AI to better impersonate real people

1 seems unlikely to be an issue anytime soon just with the way the fediverse is set up. Unless the host of my account is the one sending ads, the only way to direct ads to me specifically would be through another user account either DMing me or replying to my comments/posts, and I could just block and report that user.

2 and 3 would be more practical concerns, except with or without public voting, they already have a better insight available. Just by looking at my profile, a user can already see my posts/comments, and those are going to reveal much more than voting ever would. So I don't see public voting making this more of something to worry about.

4 is feasible, as votes are much easier to digest than comments/posts, but really AI is probably already at a level where it could vote like whatever kind of person it intends to imitate already. And honestly, any particular individual's contribution to big data is going to be almost negligible.

I don't see any real life consequences for me based on my user voting be publicly available. If someone did want to harass me irl, I would need to first give away enough revealing information so that they could identify me. And in that case, once again, my comments/posts would surely be what would incite them, not my voting. So long as issues are limited to virtual me, I can easily make an alt on the off-chance my reputation in unsalvageable or something.

The tracking with PieFed you described does seem impressive, so I guess the benefits I mentioned earlier aren't as relevant. I guess I should admit I personally like being able to look at people's activity and make judgements about them. So seeing their voting history helps satisfy my own nosiness. 😅

Based.

I like public voting. Yes, it can be abused by powertripping mods, but it also makes detecting bots and brigading much easier. That's going to be increasingly important as the fediverse grows.

Luna Snow. She gained a lot more prominence recently from being a playable character in Marvel Rivals despite not showing up much in comics or other media. The announcer for the game is Galacta, who has a similar situation.

Sunshine has a history of power tripping, and is able to avoid attention for it by using alts. As Beaver, they put the lemmy.world vegan community in trouble with admins over that vegan cat food drama, then later banned respected members of the community for "downvoting vegan comments". They were ostensibly de-modded when another mod spoke up, but if memory serves they actually still had their Sunshine alt on the mod list months later.

True, but it's still nice when there's an easy link. Thanks for doing it for the rest of us here. I wish people would include it in the post more. I like to see the context for myself, not just descriptions of it.

This is the description for the community:

A community to discuss everything Palestine.

#### Rules:

01. Posts can be in Arabic or English.

02. Please add a flair in the title of every post. Example: “[News] Israel annexes the West Bank ”, “[Culture] Musakhan is the nicest food in the world!”, “[Question] How many Palestinians live in Jordan?”

List of flairs:
[News] [Culture] [Discussion] [Question] [Request] [Guide]

Nothing there suggests criticism of the Palestinian government would be unwelcome. If that is the case, they should clarify that rather than just removing content with effectively no explanation. The comment was otherwise sympathetic to the Palestinian people, and with this to go on I would just be confused if I were in OP's shoes.

Look at their comment again. They said the Israeli government has essentially been brainwashing and abusing its population for it own ends. Does that sound like a collaborator?

There should be justification for moderating someone's posts/comments, and it should be more than not liking what they are saying. This person made a controversial take criticizing governments only and honestly said it respectfully. That should be allowed.

Bravo Vince

You should sell plasma

Its name is wordplay in Korean, where P means blood. But it is weird when translated.