"Adriana" has been harvesting strawberries for 19 yrs. In the Watsonville CA area. "We work by piece-rate. I leave work feeling very tired as there aren’t many strawberries left. I must move quickly to meet the piece-rate requirements and given my age, it’s exhausting." #WeFeedYou

Be as thoughtful as you want to be knowing that if you choose to downvote a whole bunch of comments, someone can know it was you. If someone knows that a single person is downvoting every single one of their comments they can block them if they wish. My main point is just that if you don't want someone knowing you upvoted or downvoted them, just don't do it. It would mostly just be trolls who want to hide it anyway

Are we supposed to be thoughtful with our upvotes and downvotes? I’ve just been going ham as I please.

Zero. Upvotes are a show of appreciation and I don't see why anyone would want that to be private. When it comes to downvotes, if you wouldn't want someone to know you downvoted something, you can't stand by that decision and so shouldn't have downvoted in the first place. Public reactions (alongside the self moderation features) keeps the fediverse honest and prevents the hostile type of downvote spamming you see on other platforms like reddit.

Like someone else said, how would you feel if someone was collecting all user votes across the threadiverse and tracking who likes and dislikes each post, say about politics or just a news story?

We are mostly / usually anonymous here but like everything online, I wouldn’t totally count on that. Not to sound like too much of a crackpot, but “Enemy of the state” could be a real label some government could put on you, based on your voting, in the future.

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

#MullvadBrowser 16.0

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/11/6/mullvad-browser-160

#Mullvad #privacy #FOSS #Firefox

Just when I thought #wtf regarding promoting Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff, I read this. I am running out of expletives!

#uspolitics #cdnpoli

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9706240c19821d715a6a9d0c084948e664a48dcb06e2ba2fa7e611b2c3e02655/DREHT5KAVRG2HLYCGDY3X3ZUO4/

I don't expect much privacy on a shared public space like the fediverse. If I wanted privacy, I'd spin up a new profile every day/week, and use an external bookmark manager to save stuff

On Lemmy? As others have said, they’re automatically federated and so anyone can see them.

On Piefed though? I have a user setting where I can choose whether my votes federate and I can override that default on a given post if I choose with a hot key. That’s how it should be. IMHO, more of y’all should use Piefed.

Yes, admins can see all votes. (source: am admin)

Moderators can also see votes on posts in their communities. I assume instance admins can do the same for everything.

The work of Aaron Swartz still benefits everyone who uses the internet. Hard to believe his persecution and death was 13 years ago.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/join-eff-celebrate-life-aaron-swartz

@cwebber's essay is SO GOOD. I am dismayed that I missed it.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

@mcc @glyph I don't know if I'll have the interest/energy to pursue this when I next get to a computer, but `run.txt` has me thinking of how one might make a literate just-file, or similar. A human prose description of processes that's structured enough to be compiled into a just-file (or interpreted directly). The documentation becomes part of the automation process, so remains up-to-date, while not *requiring* anyone to install the specific command runner if they want to run things manually.

Woolsphere

#defaidodon #defaidodonDay

@jalefkowit I had to laugh at the tomatoes

Lemvotes shows votes. So, it’s not private.

Sure, but what they’re gonna do with that is the question. Like even if there is a profile on my Lemmy account, which ads are they going to send me? How? Where is that data going to be worth anything?

What’s the worst that could happen?

Some data brokers looking through your preferences and building a profile out of you, I guess.