No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
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Do you mean private messages? Yes, Lemmy has them similar to Reddit. They are private in the sense that they are not public, but the server admins can see them if they need/want to. On reddit if I wanted to discuss something private with someone I would usually PM them to exchange email addresses, then take it to email. Email isn't perfectly private either, but I figured at least it would keep away from Spez and company. Beyond that, use encryption, make a phone call, meet in person, etc.
Nope, sorry. I'm not talking about private message (dm's if you will) but instead about notes.
Notes is a little thing you write under someone's profile so that you, privately, xan remember said person.
Tongive you an example, let's say we interacted in a post about international politics and you mentioned you are from Zimbabwe. I could add a note to your profile saying something like "from Zimbabwe", you could not see this note as it would be for myself to cechk if I ever interact with you again.
Many other social media has this features, in discord I use it to check when people change usernames, in mastodon just to remember people, heck even in league og legends ypu can add notes to profiles in game which I use to remember friends of friends when I play with one.
Oh interesting, I have never seen that. I do sometimes keep offline notes about discussions I've had, like when someone says something interesting about a programming topic. The notes are usually not directly about the person, but of course they could be. Anyway that type of thing belongs on the client side, imho. Lemmy already does too much on the server side.
Mastodon implements it server-side. It's just a convenience feature. Like bookmarks, draft posts. Why the hassle?
Among other things, that kind of info is private enough that the server should not store it or even see it. You chose an innocuous example "Poster X is from Belarus" but it might have easily been a private thought that you don't want seen by others. You have to assume anything on the server will eventually escape. So, that info should only exist client side.