• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    How the bots aggregate upvotes that are likely veterans.

    Lemmy is public, y’all. Be careful.

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        1 day ago

        That since voting is public, profiles which tend to upvote posts about the military greater than average would be doxxing themselves a bit, even if not commenting.

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          23 hours ago

          Ah you’re one of those “I’m a soldier so everything in life is always a threat to me” kind of people.

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            7 hours ago

            I’m a privacy advocate.

            The exact same thing can be done with femcel memes or Pride Month posts for people who live in a county where equality is illegal. Or anything not glowingly in love with ICE.

            Anyone here that pings a probable for military that also likes a few .ml socialist posts, or femcel memes, or pride month posts, would instantly get put on a watch list.

            If you’ve never watched police gladly and publicly hunt someone down because of a single picture on Facebook, then you don’t understand how quickly someone can become a target of state harassment.

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        1 day ago

        I think he is trying to imply that anyone upvoting is feeding data into a profile. Which yeah, I assume all my comments and updoots are. That’s why I updoot everything that isn’t spam.