Besides it’s a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don’t understand how the fediverse work and what I’m asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user. How to avoid vote brigading on here? Can it be automated?

I’m not pissed and I do know I post literal shit sometimes. It’s just I’m wondering, if our fedieverse have machanics against that.

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    The problem is, here I want to stay anonymous

    All social media by nature isn’t. You can only try to not make it associable with your IRL identity

    IMO public vote data is a small price to pay for not being targeted by ads and followed all over the internet, considering the alternatives are non-federated ad platforms that watch how long you spend scrolling, looking at specific items etc, altering your feed & suggestions to make them more money…

    there are laws making my critique a criminal offence. Yeah, right, they are this fragile […] and a federated instance by your local CIA-thing can vaccuum it into their database once federated

    Just be mindful of what you post - sign up at an instance located overseas, don’t interact with communities for your geographic region, don’t post pictures. Won’t stop a subpoena, but layer Tor on top and the origin is unknown. Won’t stop data mining, but if there’s no geographic hints in your post history they are SOL IMO