There’s nothing stopping a malicious user from doing that right now. Be aware that anyone who wants can already see your votes.
Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If votes became truly public, what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made? Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.
I really hope a solution is found and if Lemmy goes the way of truly public votes, it would probably turn this into a nonparticipatory medium for me, I’d still read posts but not vote or comment.
lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There’s no ‘if’, they already are.
The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.
No, anybody can currently do this.
That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.