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Was anything changed about how this federates? If no, what protections are in place against someone just patching their instance software to always return an “answer”: true on Notes?

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rimu@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That won’t have any effect unless the author of the Note is the same as the author of the original post. You’re welcome to try it.

The json structure used during federation does not limit the kind of access control checks we can do.

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wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t think so, but I wasn’t working on it. Tagging @rimu@piefed.social for awareness.

To do this, they would need to be an admin running a modified version of the software no? If that was really happening with any kind of regularity, it would surely be grounds for defederation.

In any case, if this were to become an issue, then I am sure we can change it. We have already had to change how community flair federates a few times to try to keep up with lemmy’s PRs on the feature to try to make sure it is compatible.

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