Yes I’m aware the design of the fediverse makes things public. You’ve made that point.

I think hiding your profile is worth the moderation trouble. Users report individual posts, they’re very rarely going through a person’s profile.

Mods banning based on activity in other places also leads to the opposite problem. Some subreddits do it and basically everyone hates it.

As long as they don’t dislike decentralization itself, we can definitely improve the user experience for some of these things without having to drop decentralization entirely.

Admins would still be able to see it. Mods can maybe see for their comm.

This is the same argument used against all privacy. The EU wants to kill end to end encryption so they can catch bad actors. No thank you, I’d rather my messages were private and so was my lemmy profile.

No I want it to be private (optionally) . The other guy was saying it’s not fully private still so I think you can tell users that if they want to make it private, but that shouldn’t be a reason to not make it private

It’s better than leaving the door unlocked

Then too bad? Why should my privacy be compromised because other people don’t pay attention.

Also you don’t have to click past it, I was just suggesting a static banner on the profile page, or next to the setting where’d you’d turn it off

Why does it have to be all or nothing? Why can’t I have some casual privacy, to stop every idiot from gawking at my post history?

If you want people to know, just put a big banner there “YOUR POST HISTORY IS NOT FULLY PRIVATE”

What so anyone who doesn’t have a particular interest in decentralization should just leave? That’s a great way to lose 98% of your userbase

There’s a difference between full guaranteed privacy that not even the NSA could get past and showing your post history by default in a nice UI for everyone to browse

Reddit’s search has noticeably improved. Ours hasn’t. Plus you can always search reddit via external search, but federation breaks traditional search engines