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Sometimes you see a wild political take on Lemmy and you open their profile and see them praising Russia and China.

I don't know if I'd go that far. It's one of the easiest ways to identify troll behavior. Sure going through and analyzing every post is insane, but being able to click on someone's history and see that oh they say stupid stuff for reactions regularly is pretty helpful. I'd also argue that it's helpful when people are making intellectually dishonest arguments when they have ulterior motives. Racist dog whistles for instance, when someone makes an argument that's a pretty obvious dog whistle and then claims they're just asking questions the Post history can sometimes help cut through that nonsense.

Nah bro, I remember that post where some guy was criticizing OP's cooking, so OP checks that dude's post history and finds how he drinks his own piss.

I'm pretty sure OP won that argument by just mentioning that

>go to history

>Most recent post is about mass downvoting

Yeah checks out lmao

Edit: hmmm can't figure out how to add green text brackets here

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 you can easily tell bot accounts, so they introduced this new feature

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.

How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we're all kind of wide open to eachother

I don't understand how that's supposed to work, you'd have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, "hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled" isn't going to turn anyone against you.

It really only affects people who don't stand behind their words.

Yeah I've been stalked and death threatened myself, but only here. Hurray for .ml users, alienating the world one worker at a time!

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 had a guy suddenly start stalking me, following me around and posting rude comments in response to every post I made -- his username was even a slight modification of mine. 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.

I got banned for making fun of a nonexistent race, and I was doing it to mock the concept of racism itself.