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Yeah, I always make sure to use the relevant code in my projects. I've been using 422 a lot for missing data.

Slovenia mentioned 🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮

Based Robert Golob

Some people are such pieces of shit, why do they have to ruin matrix for the rest of us

I have never played the minecraft mod :3

I just didn't check whether something named gregtech exists when registering my domain name

Minecraft, on a server with friends. We still play it

Votes are public on kbin and mbin too. Without even logging in.

Regarding hiding votes from admins, that's impossible without crippling moderation tools and allowing vote spam to happen freely, because admins would not be able to investigate. And that's just not how ActivityPub works. Votes are public.

It's not even a loophole, this is how ActivityPub is designed

Why did it decide to reply to me lol

what is this supposed to be

Hi, Lemvotes dev here. As you can imagine, I believe votes on the Fediverse should be public, because that's just how ActivityPub works. Votes are sent out to every subscribed instance, which can then do whatever it wants with them.

We need to stop pretending votes on Lemmy are private, they're not. By letting anyone view votes (well, they can do that without Lemvotes by setting up their own instance, Lemvotes just lowers the entry barrier), users can see, for example, who's serially downvoting their posts or a community's posts.

Also, I don't think votes being public ruins Lemmy. They're public on bluesky and (virtually) no one is complaining. Additionally, platforms like kbin and mbin, which are part of the Fediverse, already make votes public. So even without Lemvotes, people can view the votes on posts. Lemvotes just makes it a bit more convenient.

The only way to fully prevent anyone other than dbzer0 admins from viewing votes is to disable federation.

The way lemvotes works right now afaik, is it uses an admin level account to collect voting data from all federated instances, thus enabling the identification of every voter. This method effectively bypasses the guardrails the developers put in place to keep this info more restricted.

Just a technical nitpick, this is inaccurate. Lemvotes queries the Lemmy database directly, so instance admins can plug it into the db and Lemvotes is running. I was considering making Lemvotes its own Fediverse actor, so that (1) setting up an instance of Lemvotes would be easier, and (2) opting out would be simpler by simply defederating lemvotes.org (or wherever the instance is running), but after working on it for a bit (the results of my work are on this git branch), I realized I don't know enough about ActivityPub, and that I don't care enough about Lemvotes or Lemmy to spend my time on this, as I have other projects to work on. In case anyone wants to develop that themselves, they're free to do so! Lemvotes is open source.

kitty is hungry

I have sinned. How can I repent?

Edit: there, I even downvoted myself

Looks like windows 11 to me

edit: nevermind it's KDE, apologies, OP

Very eventful

And looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

Finally, I found the end of it

Just a heads up, you linked to the same article twice

Python 27??? Does tech in the future go full circle and starts to look like windows XP again?

Probably a good idea :P