You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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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.
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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 needed -
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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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.)
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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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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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I mean, when the human element is literally not doing communism, yes, that would be a problem.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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, 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...
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It's only fake numbers for posts on the instance.
Not the first malicious instance, wont be the last.
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Yes, it is probably the oldest or second oldest server suite in the fediverse (diaspora is maybe older).
It was an early supporter of statusnet and pump.io, which are the earlier versions of ActivityPub.
It originally used it's own protocol to talk to other friendica instances, but a lot of plug-ins came out adding support for everything, even Facebook support for a while.
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If everyone's votes are public then it seems trivial to see how any particular user votes.
If user shithead69420 downvotes literally everything I post, they're probably not a good faith user.
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Yes, but that's kind of my point?
if downvotes are public, the admin of your instance can see who is downvoting you and then they can take action. If the downvotes are coming from an instance that hides the real user for every vote, you and the admin are SOL.
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My guess is accidentally hitting the button while scrolling, and too lazy to change it.
