Submitted 21 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Meh. It’s a required feature at this point. Someone has stalked me on lemmy too.
At some point people started taking the internet beyond seriously. As if every random thing that’s mashed into the keyboard is tantamount to sworn affidavit than must be held up to scientific peer review.
It creates far more issues than it benefits. Hiding enables bad actors much more so than not hiding does, as it allows them to more easily disguise their history of bad faith arguing.
I find most hidden profiles on redit have been religious fundies or libertarians.
I’ve had someone dig through my comment history as well, the funny thing was everyone else in the comments was pointing out they were wrong.
Yeah I’ve been stalked and death threatened myself, but only here. Hurray for .ml users, alienating the world one worker at a time!
Yeah I never got death threats on Reddit but I’ve had several on Lemmy. The last time I admitted this someone asked, “well what did you say?” As though death threats are okay if you hold the wrong political opinion.
Reddit is a shitty forum. American BS policies. The moderators can ban anyone they like on their own terms, being negligent or asocial. I had an account with tons of karma and I was critisising racism. I.was.critisising.racism. The moderater did not read careful, just thought I was racist and banned me. No response to any of my rightful appeal. Shitty forum.
I got banned for making fun of a nonexistent race, and I was doing it to mock the concept of racism itself.
Once had a guy join a discord I was in, acted normally for a few minutes, interacted with the crowd, the whole jig. Then, out of nowhere, they start pinging me and posting my reddit history from like 7 years ago. Really weird. They got banned pretty quickly for doxxing.
The funniest part was that they were trying to shame me or something by posting comments I’d made on various NSFW subs and posts. Told them to keep digging, I was sure there was some good stuff in there. They got very upset over that lmao.
I had a guy suddenly start stalking me, following me around and posting rude comments in response to every post I made. I was starting to get pissed until he posted “Mom always did like me better” and I realized it was my brother who had discovered my username while hanging out in my room.
And thats why I keep accounts separate. I don’t link anything to anything, I have different usernames on different services and whatnot. Even if someone somehow figures out my (now deleted) Discord and reddit usernames and starts spamming them to someone, I can just say “well thats not me lol” In that hypothetical scenario, I’d hope they people I spent time chatting with, would believe me and not the weirdo who started spamming someones reddit history.
But also, I don’t care. I try to be myself all the time, so at worst, the creeps will just be spamming stuff that I normally do/say.
They did this to hide the bots in AI. It’s BS.
makes it ripe for scams and disinformation
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
History hidden from one’s Reddit profile is now hidden from author: Reddit searches as well. This was not originally the case.
I feel like most of those accounts with hidden history are bots
Bots or nazis. It’s real convenient that we can’t see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever
Yes. It’s not good for reddit’s business if sou can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature
Which ironically makes it easier to exclude the bots since all of them will have the history hidden. Granted that will also exclude some non-bot accounts, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Reddit started with fake users. It has always been part of their culture and history. Of course they will allow bots to hide their post history. It’s the only way they get users to consistently post.
I mean I have mine hidden. Have wanted the feature for years. Really wish lemmy would add it, but so far they’ve refused.
It’s not possible due to how lemmy and federation work. Potentially your instance could hide it from their own web ui, but any other instance could just choose to not respect that flag and display your profile fully through their instance’s web ui. All the comments have to federate anyway, much like votes which are also not private at all through lemmy.
The only reason it’s even partially possible on reddit is because the only copy of your comments as data are on reddit’s db. They aren’t sent to other instances. So when reddit hides it through the UI, there’s not another server to surface the comments. And reddit killed the third party API, so it’s not trivial to just ask the API for all comments from a specific user.
It is however, trivially easy to just use a search engine for results from reddit with the username in question and find all the comments manually. It’s a deterrant, not a real solution.
I had one guy who was a real fucking creep go through my post history. So I honestly understand wanting it to be private.
imo if you don’t want it to be public, don’t post it publicly on social media
I think it’s one of the good things reddit has introduced. Would like if something similar was introduced on Lemmg because I find it kinda fucked up that you can pretty much spy on any given user on here if you’re mentally fucked enough. It’s a stalkers wet dream.
Is reading someone’s previous posts really “spying” it’s public. I do it sometimes to find out if the person I’m conversing with is actually an idiot or not. I don’t bring their other posts into the conversation but it’s a good way to know if it’s worth expending more energy on a conversation that isn’t going anywhere.
Literally impossible in a federated open network. Your posts are going to be public.
But yeah, on other accounts I’ve had psychos following me around for weeks. One had a bunch of alts and some script that they used to downvote every single comment I made immediately after I made it, so that they always dropped to like -10.
Like I just said in the comments of another post, I’m seriously thinking of just deleting all my Lemmy accounts. 5 years in, this place has managed to turn into reddit but with more unhingned “marxist leninists”
A fellow helldiver eh? For democracy soldier
I never hid mine, I only deleted comments when I made a glaringly obvious mistake, such as commenting in the wrong post, or completely misreading the original post.
Comment, be honest, and let the chips fall where they may, is the rule I follow. If someone wants to call me out as a hypocrite, feel free. We’re all hypocrites.
If they are particularly loathsome, that is when I google their username with “Site:reddit.com” and find their comment history and call them out for something such as being an unemployed veteran on federal assistance that is arguing against federal assistance for people that are different than them.
This is an anti feature to hide bots and trolls
Hiding post history is a gift to fascists, like so many other decisions reddit made. One of those funny coincidences that keeps happenings.
Clicking someone’s username was like dogs sniffing butts. You want to know: what kind of asshole am I dealing with? But dipshits trapped in tribalist worldviews only knew that people would slap them down for hypocrisy, so wah wah wah admins come save me, if blocking to force the last word wasn’t enough. I had so many idiots sneer about /r/LinkIsCute posts, like I’m supposed to be shamed about liking a popular character in a clearly intended fashion. It’s just the desperate grasping modern version of some child with a quivering upper lip countering ‘yeah, well… nice hair!’
Disqus had private profiles for years before that and nobody even care
I think thatcs more because no one really cared about disqus. It was just a solution for comments on news articles and blogs, right?
It’s a social plugin that used to host many [redacted] opinions, so being private on there had its merits, but at some point it acted like a forum of its own. Now it’s somewhat dead, but not quite.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Adding the ability to hide your post history is an awful feature.
Made spotting trolls a lot harder