link is to a wired article that discusses charliesmurderers dot com which i will not be linking to because it is straightforwardly a doxxing website. seems like any post someone can find under your legal name is fair game to these people. for even the very smallest amount of apathy. one of the people listed is for just saying "and the world kept spinning."

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not in Amerikkka but maybe I'll delete my account and make an alt. How does this site handle post deletion? I think most of us should do something like that just in case. Reactionaries around the world are united at the moment in their bloodlust.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

People kinda don't talk about this enough, but the fediverse is kind of "very permanent".

Even within default Lemmy, comment deletion just makes it invisible, if you undelete you'll see the original content.

One can make a "Lemmy server" or any other compatible software, get all of our federated content, and never honor any delete requests. Posting on Lemmy is much more like a listserv than reddit, once it's out there it's not really coming back.

Edit: also up votes are actually public, if someone has a server or client they can just show who up voted on content like insta or whatever it if they want. They are just hidden in the Lemmy frontend, but once again, the servers know.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's actually really bad lol. Do the devs maybe want to change this? I feel like it would be a good change.

Or is it basically impossible with each site having their own version of lemmy being run?

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

it’s inherent to the nature of federation

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

What we could do is allowlist instances with the admins doing some sort of auditing of federated servers, but even that's a bit tough.

[–] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, fucking really??? All that loserposting i've done across 4-6 accounts is just etched deep into the internet?? Would have rethought my use of this site across the years if I knew that...

Ah well, guess from now on I'll just try to honor the name of this new account and live as a digital ghost in the background. We had some good times while they lasted, hexbear rat-salute

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody gives a shit about what we post here just be careful about details and cycle accounts every year or two

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah my acc is kind of old and stinky here, but here on the fediverse the best opsec is simply "don't be interesting".

This includes being careful with who you lifeboat this site to.