You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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I think lemmy instance admins can see this too. Doesn’t even have to be a friendica instance
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Oh I see, you were talking about a hypothetical where all instances hide their votes and so no one knows who is voting on anything.
My assumption was that these vote records would remain transparent on most instances because the instances that hide their votes just get defederated, because those are always going to be instances where trolls hide.
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Yes, that's happened before. They were sending a very large number of votes, so it was immediately obvious. Even a couple dozen from an unknown instance will be noticed, when an admin sees it and says "huh I haven't heard of that instance" and when they look there's nothing there.
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If you can identify all of their instances, yes.
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The first isn't really interesting, and the second is clickbait. I wouldn't say there is no reason for downvoting them.
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I'm not sure how giving every server access to the votes solves that.
The malicious server can make fake users to pump up votes. your server admin has to notice, then check the vote logs, then see what's happening and defederate them. That's pretty much what you described in your scenario, anyways. -
Neato. I don't approve of other people getting to hide vote ratios from us.
It should be an option to enable seeing the exact amounts in Lemmy.
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Yeah. It's kind of lame how they can see it but we don't.
There should be an update that allows users to choose for themselves whether than can see the exact numbers.
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They should be.
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It’s in lemmy but only available to instance admins
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I wish I could see what scummy lemm.ee mods removed my comments and got me banned
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Hashing exists for this use case
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you can, names are shown in other frontends like phtn.app.
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The whole concept of the Fediverse as social media is that all the data is public. Stop acting like these servers are giving out private data.
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Thanks but doesn't work if you're site-banned.
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If image embeds aren't cached by your server they can be abused to gain IP, but that's a hack, it's not intended.
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You can set a Lemmy server to proxy image requests
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It's way easier to notice and defed when you can see these fake usernames
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this is an icky issue because lemmy sends votes with empty addressing, so remote instances should count them but not show them to anyone. however mastodon (and *key) sends likes with empty addressing too, but considers them public. lemmy is (surprisingly) right here and should request that the rest of fedi respects the protocol and hides stuff based on its addressing. maybe open issues on mastodon and friendica
also this issue probably exists when seeing lemmy posts on any microblogging instance
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You are NOT supposed to downvote things that "aren't really interesting", you are actively ruining other people's user experience on here by doing that as downvoted posts get less visibility.
