TIL that mods can see how people vote in their communities
I was editing one of my posts and saw a "View votes" in the dropdown hamburger for the post. Now I can see who serial downvotes. Nice.
Never assume anything you do on servers you don't own are private. In fact don't even do it then, encrypt that shit.
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Tying votes to accounts is pretty much required by the way activity-pub works; an upvote is basically the same as a heart/like on old Twitter and with federation it needs to know where the vote is coming from and where it’s going.
Piefed has an option to try to circumvent this by creating a second, “fake” account with no obvious connection to your own account and sends all your votes using that account. If the instance doesn’t have many accounts, though, it can still be obvious who’s voting.
As others have mentioned, other front ends or services can show the votes publicly to anyone who wants to see it. Even on other platforms that use a voting system one should always assume the votes are tied to one’s account.
Literally everyone can see how anyone votes. Others have mentioned lemvotes already.
A bot that reveals that behaviour to the community would be very helpful.
On PieFed instances the votes of serial downvoters are automatically discarded.
Hell, your comment should be a TIL all by itself. Maybe people will stop bitching about their posts getting a single downvote when they can see it's just a few trolls.
That is gold. Thanks for the site.
Lmao, the sandwich guy is so funny to me
What if you voted but then un-voted? Is that visible?
Just a reminder that votes should be considered public, because anyone can gain access to them by either setting up their own lemmy server or moving to another federated service that displays them upfront (kbin/mbin)
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/03-votes-and-ranking.md#vote-privacy
Fuck all those cute boys gonna know I swoon for them thx for doxxing me you've ruined my life