Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 weeks agoTo truly make that change, they would have to change how the federation works. Right now its visible to anyone who runs a server your server federates with.
I hear Mbin users can already see it.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah, and I think that’s the argument about making it public.
But access rights to stuff seems like the kind of thing that should be configurable, even if it requires a change and isn’t backwards compatible
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
There I agree with you.
Making it public right now is useful to remove a dangerous false sense of privacy. But in the bigger picture I agree with you.
I wonder how one would solve that though. If you send a “vote” request without any user data, what stops you from sending 100?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The data needs to be sent from the voter to the server that owns the post. But the server that owns the post can anonymize the data before it sends it to clients or other servers.