FOSSDLE PieFedLemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
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Rimu
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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
There I agree with you.
Making it public right now is useful to remove a dangerous false sense of privacy. But in the bigger picture I agree with you.
I wonder how one would solve that though. If you send a "vote" request without any user data, what stops you from sending 100?
The data needs to be sent from the voter to the server that owns the post. But the server that owns the post can anonymize the data before it sends it to clients or other servers.
That said I don't have deep understanding of activitypub. Its possible that something would prevent this, like if votes made their way to the server that owns the post by way of telephone game rather than directly from the client or the user's home server. But that seems like an unreasonable design, so I doubt (hope not) that is the case.