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rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You are still trusting the instance admin. What if the admin pushes a code patch that transforms every like into a dislike based on a keyword?
Your history will never be fully portable.
It creates some weird dynamic: are we going to start dividing ourselves into “instances that obfuscate voting” and “instances that prefer transparency”?
What is the criteria for “malicious”?

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lalo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Currently, any admin can modify any local user activity, can’t they?

Not really, your local instance may still hold the vote data for validation. And therefore could be ported and resigned.

Don’t see the problem.

Today, each instance decides whomever they want federation with. The ones who decide the criteria should be the same ones who decide whom the instance federates with.
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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Admins could modify the activity, but users can verify from outside (if they so which). If the user data gets obfuscated, it becomes a complete black box.
  
  But then you have two different events.
  
  Here is one problem: the userbase on the Fediverse is already ridiculously small. If we keep dividing ourselves over very little preference, we will end up with nothing but a thousand little ghetto fiefdoms, used by people who will never ever learn how to tolerate a different point of view.
  
  No. What will happen is that the silent majority will want to keep federation with everyone, but the intolerant minority will keep pushing instance admins to defederate from anyone who does not want to obfuscate votes. Eventually, LW will make a decision one way or another and everyone else will just have to decide if they want to stick with their principles or follow the leader so that they are not isolated.
  
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