Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months agoExactly. If private votes were intended, Lemmy servers would have had voting privacy setting where the vote is federated as @privacy-vote-{sha256sum userid & postid}@instance.foo instead of the actual voter’s username.
rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
Not privacy-protecting. You can easily deduct the voter by enumeration.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A private salt would fix that :)
rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
Then what is the point of hashing the data? Just use an UUID.
Anyway, this is all pointless bike shedding because the activity needs to be associated with the actor, as it can only be accepted if the signature can be verified.