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Creating decoy Lemmy accounts for plausible deniability (lemmy.zhenyapav.com)

submitted 1 year ago by zhenyapav@lemmy.zhenyapav.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So, I've started my own Lemmy instance. The main issue is that right now, I am the only user, which makes it pretty easy for anyone to see what kinds of communities I visited, or am subscribed to. Is there any way to automate creation of some amount of accounts, and subscribing to random communities?

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does that make it easy for others to know the comunities you visit / subscribed to?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Only communities a user subscribes to get federated over.

[–] three@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

clicks username

views comments you've posted

walla my egyptian friend

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... okay? But if i subscribe to every lemmynsfw community, but never post to them... you'd have no idea.

With your own instance, looking at the instance list will show them all to anyone.

[–] tarjeezy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you are the only user on an instance, your subscriptions are the only ones federating over into the server's All feed. For example, even if you haven't posted in all of these communities, is this not essentially your personal list of subscriptions?

https://lemmy.saik0.com/communities?listingType=All

[–] zhenyapav@lemmy.zhenyapav.com 3 points 1 year ago

That's precisely the issue I'm talking about

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] tarjeezy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's interesting. I guess when your instance creates a local copy of the post, it would also add the corresponding community to the list to match.

[–] relevants@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

..walla?

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voila

[–] relevants@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

ooooh of course. I should've just tried saying it out loud haha

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe by monitoring federation data, or seeing which communities have been fetched?

I know that if you're the first person in an instance to look at a community, it won't load right away. However I'm not sure how someone would monitor that (or why they would want to)

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If there's only one user that instance's "all" feed will be indistinguishable from the user's subscription feed.

(unless you do some community seeding)