Comment on Voting in the threadiverse

fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• TheFool@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They really aren’t Here are yours :)

  I think this is a huge problem but I also don’t think things are going to change

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  • fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s concerning. However after being on the Fediverse for a while, I understand that the freedom from corporations comes in a trade-off with privacy, and even if I’m not tech savvy I’m convinced this isn’t going to change. Maybe there should more understanding about this, and we should put online only things we are totally ok with being publicly available and share private stuff only in specific places such as encrypted chats

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    • TheFool@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The thing is, what’s stopping Google or Meta from spinning up an instance just to profile you, they wouldn’t even have to embrace extend extinguish they could just quietly spin one up and start reading everything. I think the Votes should only be visible to the community mods/admins but that would require a change in how the whole system works and I don’t think it’s going to happen

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A big problem with the data collection is how hidden and one sided it is. On here its out in the open, we say how it works and the data is available for anyone. On Facebook its hidden for users to speculate on what’s being collected and only Facebook and the people they sell it to have access.

        Data is very useful for making cool tools that enhance user experience and it can also be dangerous. I think the fediverse is privacy conscious enough to find the right balance.

        Personally i dont think we’ve found it and need to do more to preserve privacy.

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• sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They aren’t shown to users, no, but because votes are federated, they’re freely accessible to anyone willing to put in some effort.

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re not. Each post’s upvoters are visible via ActivityPub endpoints.

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are no endpoints from which the votes can be fetched. One would have to make an instance to receive the Like or Dislike activities.

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