You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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What if a uuid is generated every time a user signs up, and every upvote iterates through the uuids?
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Or mentally unwell people stalking.
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How would that work? How would an admin separate downvotes from brigaders and legitimate users who happen to downvote a comment?
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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.
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You can already do it with a database query iirc.
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Is IP not logged anywhere in Lemmy/ ActivityPub?
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Nope just server
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IIRC PieFed’s method is to send the upvote using a second random username not connected to your username.
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I think server admins can access. It makes sense moderation wise, if for keeping a tab on alts alts and enforcing permabans.
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Well yes, the whole concept of the fediverse is that of social media as a public service. All activitypub data is public.
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So you're agreeing with me that it will be abused.
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Not them but yes but it's not a feature of the system, it's a failure of the humans.
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I wish friendica had a mobile app. I spend more time on my phone
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Its webui is responsive (i think), its compatible with the mastodon api.
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Raccoon for Friendica is great if you're on Android.
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This feature has been available to all kbin/Mbin users since the beginning, btw.
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What is it that you mean by that? Do you mind rephrasing your reply?
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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.
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I wanna say it was built into Lemmy originally as well but they removed it from the FE
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What can they use that data for?
It would only be usable data if they could show personalized ads to the users. They can’t.
All they know is that Meldrik up/downvoted this and that, but outside of Lemmy they have no idea who Meldrik is.
