Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How come?

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because it is giving in to the already problematic functionality of AP, which is the fact that way too much user telemetry is exposed to way to may people as it stands. Work should focus on making AP more private, not less.

    There is nothing in the AP spec which states that user strings need to be plaintext. Lemmy should be building out tools which allow AP participants to optionally participate via tokenized user strings.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Best option for privacy is not to vote

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As mentioned previously “this kills the Lemmy”. Threaded discussion platforms rely on voting to sort posts and comments.

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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Work should focus on making AP more private, not less.

      That’s a fair opinion, but this is clearly not the place for that discussion, neither is the Lemmy GitHub repository. ActivityPub has channels for that itself.

      Meanwhile, while ActivityPub still has this state of making votes effectively public, we should decide how Lemmy should handle that. We can always change that if ActivityPub changes later, but that is probably years away, if not forever away.

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