You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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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.
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Tools do not have morality or ethics, only people do. Some people use tools in a morally and/or ethically questionable manner, either for profit or because it amuses them.
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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.
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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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I'm honestly surprised it hasn't already become rampant.
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How to fo that?
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Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.
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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.
