I know how to deal with doxxing on traditional social media. I either report the comment or delete my comment, and if the platform doesn’t have moderators I trust, then I don’t use it.

But on the fediverse, anyone on any instance can reveal some personal information and it has to be deleted on every instance in order to be cleared for everyone. Any joe shmoe can spin up an instance, post your personal details (or personal details they made up), and bada bing bada boom, your identity is compromised forever.

I don’t trust the admins of sites like Reddit and Facebook very much, but I trust them a lot more than the instance admin of lemmy.eightyeight.nazi, or whatever other instance run by people who want to hurt me for who I am. And what if an admin is just busy and just doesn’t have time to check reports, or it’s an unmoderated instance run by an admin who gave up on Lemmy but didn’t unplug their server?

Do I have to trust every single person on the internet with basic server admin knowledge in order to use the fediverse?

  • HardlightCereal@lemmy.mlOP
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    8 months ago

    Thanks for all of that, that really sucks. Also that other person is not me, and you’ll note that Ada claims a deleted comment as evidence, because nobody can actually check a deleted comment and prove she’s full of shit.

    The harassment is for sure incontrovertible, but nobody seems to give a shit about that. I wouldn’t have a problem if I could just erase the rumours that are being said to others and encouraging others to harass me.