Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • amki@feddit.deEnglish
    154·
    1 year ago

    Say you have critical information that you want to delete

    Then you shouldn’t have uploaded it publicly.

    other instances can just ignore this deletion request, than I could technically write a plugin that uses an extra instance, to always display all deleted comments to me

    The same was always possible with Reddit and was even implemented. Why is this a problem now?

    For other sites you’d need a crawler

    Only if they don’t have an API.

    • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.deEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      People can accidentally reveal there identity or post something, notice this is too private edit or delete it. The chance for someone to have seen it in 1 second is low. The chance for a bit to have crawled that thread, with that comment, is higher but still low as it requires infrastructure, that costs money and a little skill to setup. Something someone for a simple plugin won’t do.

      If anyone can host a Lemmy instance and you just need to filter that one line of code that’s for forwarding delete or edit requests, you can just push that info into a separate view. You now just need a plugin that will poll from the instance that’s not complying to delete requests and display them to the user. Hell that’s something even I could do quickly if I ever feel bored.

      • amki@feddit.deEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Hosting (or simply just using) a crawler takes less resources and skill than hosting Lemmy let alone modify it the way you intend.

        • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yes, I know, every CS student can program a crawler. I explained in another comment why it’s still a huge difference.

          Maybe if hosting a Lemmy instance is that hard, it’s enough? I don’t know.