Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, and this would be fairly easy to make them at least pseudonymous without even needing to modify activitypub itself.
That said, I still don’t support anything which lowers the friction of vote stalking like exposing votes in even more places. Technically people can look up my address from my license plate number if they really care to, but that doesn’t mean I want to list it in bold letters on my windshield.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t follow, what are people going to do from being able to see votes that they can’t do by seeing your posts?
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
For starters datamining my voting patterns for building a deeper interest profile. It should be pretty obvious how this works in terms of user fingerprinting, and the ultimate monetization of Lemmy data. It would be super naive to think that Lemmy will be the one web space immune to this kind of thing. I guarantee you meta already has an army of silent instances doing this.
Worst case scenario, legit state actors use it to target deanonymization attacks.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They can already datamine your posts.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But not my votes.