Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
How does this work with moderation? I.e. what happens if I ban the real user from a Lemmy instance? What if I ban the alternate user?
Also, what happens if on Piefed, a user votes for something, then they change the setting and then they vote for the same thing again? How would a Lemmy instance know if it should count the vote or not, since the original user didn’t actually vote from Lemmy’s point of view?
andrew_s@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
The 'real user' and the 'private voter' are 2 different accounts as far a external instances are concerned, but only 1 as far as piefed.social is concerned. So if you banned either one, it would have the same effect, because PF would locate the same account from the information provided.
Likewise, a piefed user can't vote twice on something, they make one vote, and then the 'private voting' setting determines how it is sent out. The local system has tracked that they have voted, and changing the setting won't change that.
There's always more work to do of course, but piefed.social is a small instance, with manual approval required for registration, no API to script things like mass downvoting, and concepts such as 'attitude' which would prevent that anyway, so I can't foresee anything too disastrous happening from this little experiment.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
I’m a little concerned about the precedent this sets. An instance could use this technique to facilitate anonymous commenting or posting in addition to votes.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Who cares? Generating an infinite number of tokenized identities to facilitate ban evasion will just result in an instance getting defederated. This introduces no real risk as long as the instance is generally abiding by the rules.
Most of us here are fairly anonymous anyway. I dont think being able to add an additional layer of privacy to our activity is really a big deal.