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.

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Lol. kids these days would psot their bank info online if the banks didn’t prevent them from doing so.

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158 points

You say that like A/S/L wasn’t a thing back in the day.

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114 points

19/f/Cali was the only acceptable response

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64 points

I think we cybered

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666/D/Hell

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5 points

puts on wizard’s hat

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25 points

Even back then we were told never to reveal that sort of stuff online. How many of us do you think were telling the truth?

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You think someone would do that?

Just go on the internet and tell lies?

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Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃

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Yall remember those “your stripper name is the street you grew up on and your pet’s name” challenges? Literally phishing for password recovery keys.

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I got a virus.

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I don’t want to shame anyone, but I’ve had people sign up give me their full DoB and offering to show me their ID. I know of people who disclose their id to get access to nsfw discord communities.

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DUDE MY GIRLFRIEND FUCKING DID THAT AND I JUST LOOKED AT HER AND ASKED HER IF SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. In hindsight no, thankfully she’s gonna be moving soonish. This was from before we were together, otherwise I would have warned her not to do that. It was the same discord she got a cyberstalker from, thankfully the stalker wasn’t a friend of the owner because otherwise he totally could have gotten her address and irl info.

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14 points

Wasn’t there a twitter account that retweeted people posting photos of their credit cards?

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so would my grandpa

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I am your grandpa

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19/f/Cali is the only acceptable response

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So would a significant portion of the population of all ages

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