You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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What is it that you mean by that? Do you mind rephrasing your reply?
It's the age old argument of "It's not Communism that's bad, it's the human element."
Speaking as if any system created by humans will ever be free of the human element, which is of course faulty logic.
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Banning trolls would be doable - they'd have patterns where they target specific users across many different communities. If the same user downvotes everything I've ever said, from controversial political takes to pictures of food to posts about gardening, that's probably a malicious user.
But "brigading" doesn't mean anything and I don't respect the concept. You can't ban it because you can't define it in a way that doesn't include normal usage of the site.
If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said,
Right. How would you know what "the same user" is? Let's say that your posts get downvoted at random intervals by 5-10 users in the first 45-120 minutes. They all have different user names. What are you going to do? Create a report against any particular user and hope that the mods look into it?
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One of the advantages of votes being public is that it keeps instance owners honest and, perhaps more importantly, means they know other instance owners are honest.
If they weren't public it would be easy to modify your lemmy instance to send 10 votes with fake hashes for every real vote. There would be constant accusations of brigading and faking votes.
I'm honestly surprised it hasn't already become rampant.
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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
How to fo that?
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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.
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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can't just have servers sending each other information "somebody upvoted this" and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.
So upvotes and downvotes aren't actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don't.
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Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can't just have servers sending each other information "somebody upvoted this" and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.
So upvotes and downvotes aren't actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don't.
The server hosting the post needs it.
It only needs to tell other servers the vote count, and the votes of people on that other server.
That may not be how it actually works, but that's all that's needed -
How to fo that?
Asumming you meant "do", go to friendica (friendica.world) and paste the fedilink (press the rainbow button) into the searchbar.
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But it has absolutely nothing to do with how it is displayed in Friendica.
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The server hosting the post needs it.
It only needs to tell other servers the vote count, and the votes of people on that other server.
That may not be how it actually works, but that's all that's neededYes, but then you can have malicious servers sending fake numbers without other server operators being able to check whether this is at all plausible.
(It's still possible for malicious servers to send fake votes, but server operators can see which users they are stated to originate from, then block that server if that looks like it's doing that. At least that is my understanding.)
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Yes, but as long as you don’t reveal your identity, they can’t do much to track you.
They don’t have access to your IP.
Of course, it you’re using the same username over multiple services, or reveal identifying information (which is much easier to analyse now due to AI) they will be able to track you.
My name is actually Ricky Rigatoni and I am King of the Brooklyn Mafia.
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Cant you just defed with them?
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Yes, but then you can have malicious servers sending fake numbers without other server operators being able to check whether this is at all plausible.
(It's still possible for malicious servers to send fake votes, but server operators can see which users they are stated to originate from, then block that server if that looks like it's doing that. At least that is my understanding.)
What do you mean "send fake votes"?
Or rather, who do you think should be responsible for identifying and blocking fraudulent votes?And how do you reconcile votes that come from servers that you've defederated with? Should everyone have the same view of the post, or should people only see votes from servers that their server is federated with? What about votes from users you've personally blocked? Etc
I personally kinda think that the responsibility is on the server hosting the post, and that everyone should see the same (but anonymous) vote count, of which the hosting server is the single source of truth.
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It's the age old argument of "It's not Communism that's bad, it's the human element."
Speaking as if any system created by humans will ever be free of the human element, which is of course faulty logic.
I mean, when the human element is literally not doing communism, yes, that would be a problem.
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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
I was thinking just now how there seems to be people who downvotes threads for no apparent reason, even seemingly innocuous and neutral ones.. for example "Kingdom Come has sold 2 million units" 3 downvotes; "This New Algorithm for Sorting Books Is Close to Perfection" 5 downvotes; you get the idea. Now everyone is entitled to their opinion, but It makes me wonder if someone(s) is spam downvoting for some motive.
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I was thinking just now how there seems to be people who downvotes threads for no apparent reason, even seemingly innocuous and neutral ones.. for example "Kingdom Come has sold 2 million units" 3 downvotes; "This New Algorithm for Sorting Books Is Close to Perfection" 5 downvotes; you get the idea. Now everyone is entitled to their opinion, but It makes me wonder if someone(s) is spam downvoting for some motive.
Might just be people who are used to having an algorithm so they dislike stuff they don't want to see more of.
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Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.
kbin also got rid of the ability to view downvotes. I believe either before the fork or at least before the implosion while mbin were still mostly just pulling from upstream.
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What do you mean "send fake votes"?
Or rather, who do you think should be responsible for identifying and blocking fraudulent votes?And how do you reconcile votes that come from servers that you've defederated with? Should everyone have the same view of the post, or should people only see votes from servers that their server is federated with? What about votes from users you've personally blocked? Etc
I personally kinda think that the responsibility is on the server hosting the post, and that everyone should see the same (but anonymous) vote count, of which the hosting server is the single source of truth.
A malicious hosting server could use fake points to blast any message to the top of everyone's feeds until manually banned or defederated
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Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can't just have servers sending each other information "somebody upvoted this" and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.
So upvotes and downvotes aren't actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don't.
Over thinking.
Only the instance needs the username to register the vote, the count can then be updated by the instance. Simple and lightweight
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It's the age old argument of "It's not Communism that's bad, it's the human element."
Speaking as if any system created by humans will ever be free of the human element, which is of course faulty logic.
, which is of course faulty logic
...which is why design systems so that when using them we can account for the human element, right? Come on! We have centuries-spanning systems even industries built on that! Engineering, avionics, Yelp reviews...
