this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
598 points (98.9% liked)
Greentext
7944 readers
832 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I had mine hidden because you say one controversial thing in the wrong community and they're digging for dirt in comments from years ago.
But if I hide my history, I will not have the satisfaction of wasting the time of a belligerent no-lifer...
I don't understand how that's supposed to work, you'd have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, "hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled" isn't going to turn anyone against you.
It really only affects people who don't stand behind their words.
This would never work. It actually would 100% lead to being mass downvoted. Not just reddit, but here too.
The way to deal with that is to simply not care about down votes. They are meaningless.
exactly. I wonder sometimes at comments. People seem to have limited experience with other people here, and are overly optimistic about how reasonable and kind people are.... they are not. especially not in a social media setting.
Some of it too is differing audiences/communities. You might tell a joke in front of your poker bros that you wouldn't tell in front of your kids ... and there's nothing wrong with that.
and for some folks the fact you pay poker or have kids make you irredeemably horrible person.
You overestimate the average persons ability to read what you've written and interpret the meaning behind it. I have no doubt that plenty of people will read your comments from years ago and nail you to the wall over some gross misinterpretation of something that's not even remotely related to the topic at hand.
They've also got 10 other accounts to start piling on and hitting the down arrows, then the rest of the thread sees who the target is and joins in.
The option to hide post history here would be nice, but the culture here isn't one that encourages users to dig through each others post history anyway.
speak for yourself. been here two years and i have had multiple people stalk my history and quote me about shit i said in unrelated communities to prove how 'evil' i was. shit's wild.
almost always out of context, but when you are a hammer everything looks like nails.
Lol nah, one cant get within a meter of a political conversation without people digging through every comment to find something to quote out of context.
Thank you for pretending!
How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we're all kind of wide open to eachother
Small correction: Piefed no longer obsfucates votes.
Really? How recently was that? Do you mean like fuzzing the numbers like reddit or can they be scraped by lemvotes now?
Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the "voting account" behind the scenes.
I don't know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.
Just double checked, you're right. It can still scrape piefed votes for users. I think maybe the way piefed url's work isn't automatically compatible with the format lemvotes needs for individual posts. That's why I thought they were obscured
That's just where the internet is now; everything is accessible. Your public data is scraped and your private data is sold.
Yes for sure, but you were talking about unhinged reddit profile detectives. I only ask because I have conflicted feelings and am trying to figure out how to be less worried about it here
This is just the nature of the format. I quickly learned the unsubtle art of not caring if random strangers don't like me.
noooooooooooooo we hates the panopticon 😖 I want to upvote unhinged stuff
This is why I regularly go through and delete my history. Yeah I know a lot of it is recoverable if someone really digs or especially if they're actually recording me specifically but I can at least make it harder to do casually. I just wish there was a similar tool to powerdeletesuite for reddit but for Lemmy.
Why not just do make alts? Every now and then I look for something just to find deleted answers.
It's a lot of effort in a fedi that wants emails and other verifications as signup criteria. One server I had to write an essay for.
Email is almost universal, but do you have to be on an instance that requires a whole essay? I think I got my account pretty easy.
There's a lot of different requirements a lot of different places. although I did buy an email from a provider that offers multi addresses so maybe I'd better make use of that. idk. maybe. I'd also then have to keep track of which things I post to which accounts.