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Oh no, so my upvotes on c/spacedicks aren't private?

/s

ITT: we muddy the waters and people get scared because they don’t know how deep they are anymore despite standing in it

For transparency, this is what a Like payload looks like. The first part is just context for the activitiypub protocol and is pretty much the same for each message. The second part contains the actual data of the message, and the most personal detail in it is the url of your own profile, and the url of the post/comment you like:

{
	"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
	{
		"lemmy": "https://join-lemmy.org/ns#",
		"litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#",
		"pt": "https://joinpeertube.org/ns#",
		"sc": "http://schema.org/",
		"ChatMessage": "litepub:ChatMessage",
		"commentsEnabled": "pt:commentsEnabled",
		"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
		"matrixUserId": "lemmy:matrixUserId",
		"postingRestrictedToMods": "lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods",
		"removeData": "lemmy:removeData",
		"stickied": "lemmy:stickied",
		"moderators":
		{
			"@type": "@id",
			"@id": "lemmy:moderators"
		},
		"expires": "as:endTime",
		"distinguished": "lemmy:distinguished",
		"language": "sc:inLanguage",
		"identifier": "sc:identifier"
	}],
	"actor": "--URL OF THE USER PROFILE--",
	"object": "--URL OF THE POST OR COMMENT--",
	"type": "Like",
	"id": "-- URL TO THE INSTANCE THAT PASSED THE MESSAGE--",
	"audience": "-- URL TO THE COMMUNITY THE POST IS PART OF--"
}

What about private messages? We should assume the person running the instance can read all private messages.

So this is interesting... I thought only kbin visualized voting. Does this mean Lemmy's users are also tracked on kbin?

Good data if you're trying to find the homophobes and transphobes who think they're "infiltrating" and voting down every single one of those posts. They out themselves.

I'm fine with it too. Don't think I'd be here if I wasn't okay with sharing these sort of things. If I wanted privacy for my upvotes or downvotes (why tho?), I'd do it anonymously.

And yeah, I upvoted the beans as well. Ate beans 90% of the time as a student. Still farting from it 20 years later.

I think this is to be expected - some instances have downvotes disabled but that doesn't seem to be the rule of thumb.

There are quite a few questions about data retention, usage, retrieval, compliance and how it is shared which will need to be addressed as the platform grows.

Countdown for this to be monetised by someone.

I'd be really shocked if they recorded IP addresses as well.