As I’ve explained elsewhere, this is just what popped into my mind.

Many scenarios exist where you view content you did not intend on viewing.

For example, have you ever been Rick Rolled?

You’re reading too much into my comment.

I am a software engineer, and am always thinking of user experiences in my day job. This is simply the scenario that popped into my mind, but many do exist.

Besides hacking, phishing scams, and pranks. Users trick others all the time into viewing content they didn’t mean to view.

My concern isn’t so much that this can happen at all, but rather that if views were public, how it’d be trivial to write software that auto bans users based on those views. Without great moderation tools, and petitioning it wouldn’t scale well.

I was just providing a scenario that came to mind. I am sure many exist outside the one I described.

Nobody has mentioned crime, so I am not sure where that came from. Accountability can come in many forms, and often on the internet users will be banned or excluded based on their direct actions. However, if views were public, it would be trivial to setup a bot to autoban users from communities before they even join, based solely on what they’ve seen.

Not too bad then, at that point it just depends how they handle log storage on the instance you are visiting.

Thanks for clarifying.

If post views are public that’s a fairly poor implementation on the developers part. I’m sure it will change over time.

E.g. someone using your account to view illegal content in a community you are not a member of, and you being held accountable.

Even posting this comment required me to submit it twice 👆due to an API error.

I am experiencing this as well. I had to sign in to another account, and then switch accounts back to @world to get Mlem to pull down posts again. Definitely something funky going on with the API in this build 🤔

A paper trail for your master password, somewhere secure is good. Password manager companies have been breached in the past (see LastPass), so rotating your passwords and signing up for breach alerts will help save you from disaster.

Rather than being on a niche discussion thread online, it would be great if classrooms across the globe taught this tip as a practical skill to have instead. I bet it would go a long way if everyone had the chance to use a fire extinguisher in action before a fire broke out.

Yea, usually in open source projects, project management gets ignored more than it necessarily should.

A roadmap detailing goals and outlining MVPs would be very helpful to developer, albeit it can take away from the excitement of not done correctly. Determining low hanging fruit and work that is good for new contributors early one can make a big difference. Allowing those with seniority to tackle the important and hard core featureset while still getting fixes and small improvements out the door.

I didn’t know this, just wanted to say thank you!

Long term I could see this become more like multireddits. We could tag a group of communities, and then filter by tag.

For example, you could have a garden tag that covers communities for composting, zeroscaping, mycology, trees, vegetables, CSAs, farming, recipes etc.