I did a little digging, and it looks like it went live on June 3rd, last year. [Announcement] So yeah, whoops-- it’s a little more recent than I thought.
As noted, however, it’s not broadly called “curation”; it merely falls under such user option tools. “Curation” is a much wider set of options that can apply in multiple ways.
Btw, thanks for ObscureMusic. Didn’t know about it, but just subscribed!
EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?
About profiles being public on the fediverse, everything’s possible with enough will. And if someone’s willing to chase another someone down, I’d imagine there’s enough will to track down everything that is shared by this other one. And I can think of some rather feasible ways that tracking can be done anonymously.
For sure.
I kind of hand-waved the issue away, above, but I fear you’re absolutely correct.
Indeed, it’s really not that hard to imagine some programming being put together (perhaps aided with a bit of AI), to absolutely track down and dox just about anyone using careless little hints we typically leave behind when we assume we’re being relatively anonymous, online.
And then, if a bad actor, using password-breaking tools to cause all kinds of mayhem, even possibly breaking in to our online banking accts and so forth. But also, if a govt entity, gaining all kinds of info and insight in to our lives.
It’s actually kind of terrifying, and the tools for such already exist. I guess Palantir’s already doing so…?
Wouldn’t doubt intelligence services from who knows how many countries are keeping an eye here, or even companies such as Meta (even if in their case, without Threads). Maybe an ill-intended individual or a monitoring entity doesn’t even have their own instances.
It’s an important discussion for responsible web-use IMO, however late in the game we generally might be upon such shizzle.
For example, I run uMatrix blocker extension so I can see and control every little javascript a site tries to run, and I note that Facebook’s and Google’s shit are almost everywhere, across ~90% of modern websites. It’s… pretty ridiculous.
EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?
It’s not a widely opposed aspect of the Fediverse currently, but if a wave of Redditors came here - given how many choose to hide their profile, many 100% would complain.
hold the fuck on a second. why did I have to give an email when i signed up?? it actually almost put me off entirely. I’ve been using Mirage the last few weeks and it didn’t ask me for anything when signing up and seems much more privacy centred. This was after being banned on reddit. are you telling me you didn’t need an email to sign up here?
I did not. Caveat: I signed up on reddthat.com and lemmus.org. (It’s actually kind of cute: “What if I don’t want to give you my email?” “Great! You don’t have to! We don’t even want your email!.”)
I note that something called the lemmyclub does demand your email.
I did a little digging, and it looks like it went live on June 3rd, last year. [Announcement] So yeah, whoops-- it’s a little more recent than I thought.
As noted, however, it’s not broadly called “curation”; it merely falls under such user option tools. “Curation” is a much wider set of options that can apply in multiple ways.
Btw, thanks for ObscureMusic. Didn’t know about it, but just subscribed!
EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?
About profiles being public on the fediverse, everything’s possible with enough will. And if someone’s willing to chase another someone down, I’d imagine there’s enough will to track down everything that is shared by this other one. And I can think of some rather feasible ways that tracking can be done anonymously.
For sure.
I kind of hand-waved the issue away, above, but I fear you’re absolutely correct.
Indeed, it’s really not that hard to imagine some programming being put together (perhaps aided with a bit of AI), to absolutely track down and dox just about anyone using careless little hints we typically leave behind when we assume we’re being relatively anonymous, online.
And then, if a bad actor, using password-breaking tools to cause all kinds of mayhem, even possibly breaking in to our online banking accts and so forth. But also, if a govt entity, gaining all kinds of info and insight in to our lives.
It’s actually kind of terrifying, and the tools for such already exist. I guess Palantir’s already doing so…?
Wouldn’t doubt intelligence services from who knows how many countries are keeping an eye here, or even companies such as Meta (even if in their case, without Threads). Maybe an ill-intended individual or a monitoring entity doesn’t even have their own instances.
It’s an important discussion for responsible web-use IMO, however late in the game we generally might be upon such shizzle.
For example, I run uMatrix blocker extension so I can see and control every little javascript a site tries to run, and I note that Facebook’s and Google’s shit are almost everywhere, across ~90% of modern websites. It’s… pretty ridiculous.
Yeah, it’s not curation.
It’s not a widely opposed aspect of the Fediverse currently, but if a wave of Redditors came here - given how many choose to hide their profile, many 100% would complain.
Well, since lemmy doesn’t require an email addy, I, for one, am not too concerned.
hold the fuck on a second. why did I have to give an email when i signed up?? it actually almost put me off entirely. I’ve been using Mirage the last few weeks and it didn’t ask me for anything when signing up and seems much more privacy centred. This was after being banned on reddit. are you telling me you didn’t need an email to sign up here?
I did not. Caveat: I signed up on reddthat.com and lemmus.org. (It’s actually kind of cute: “What if I don’t want to give you my email?” “Great! You don’t have to! We don’t even want your email!.”)
I note that something called the lemmyclub does demand your email.