You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
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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.
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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.
