6d ago

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

Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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There's no way that isn't going to be abused. Some marketing or tracking agency will setup a fediverse server and just collect all data like this for free. Or worse, take advantage of a friendica instance to bombard it with requests for data collection purposes.
- Well yes, the whole concept of the fediverse is that of social media as a public service. All activitypub data is public.
  
  So you're agreeing with me that it will be abused.
  
  Not them but yes but it's not a feature of the system, it's a failure of the humans.
  
  What is it that you mean by that? Do you mind rephrasing your reply?
  
  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.
  
  True, we perpetuate the unjust systems around us. Systems can be constructed to unfairly benefit some over others as well, like how capitalism unfairly benefits the wealthy.
  
  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.
  Edit:
  The downvote button is not an 'I don't like this' button, trogs. Read the rules.
  
  , 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...
  
  I think you're forgetting the context of the discussion...
  Not them but yes but it's not a feature of the system, it's a failure of the humans.
  A system designed to be used by humans has an attribute bound to be exploited by humans and it's the failure of humans for exploiting it.
  
  I mean, when the human element is literally not doing communism, yes, that would be a problem.
  
  That's the problem: for communism to work, it requires perfect beings that act according to how the system is designed. Humans do not do that.
  
  i think we should be accounting for it if we don't wanna get swallowed by shitty interests tbh
  
  Like, of course; tho any sort of "accounting" should IMO start from the base that the intent of this entire thing is to publicly share public information.
  
  has anyone come up with possible solutions yet?
  
  But it has absolutely nothing to do with how it is displayed in Friendica.
- 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.
  
  My name is actually Ricky Rigatoni and I am King of the Brooklyn Mafia.
  
  Is IP not logged anywhere in Lemmy/ ActivityPub?
  
  Nope just server
  
  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.
  
  You can set a Lemmy server to proxy image requests
  
  Exactly, that's why I said for ones that aren't cached. They can be cached, but it's not a guarantee they will be.
  
  Proxying is a separate option from caching. I think it was added in 0.19.5
  
  Oh I didn't know that, that's good. Though I think the point still stands since it's not a guarantee instance admins will use it (unless it's a default).
  
  I think server admins can access. It makes sense moderation wise, if for keeping a tab on alts for enforcing permabans.
- This feature has been available to all kbin/Mbin users since the beginning, btw.
  
  I wanna say it was built into Lemmy originally as well but they removed it from the FE
  
  It’s in lemmy but only available to instance admins
- This is nothing new. Fire up any ActivityPub server and you can see everything over the wire. As a Lemmy admin of my server of just me, I can also see it in the UI.
- 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.
  
  If you think metadata is worthless, I would like to make you aware about Snowden and his revelations. Look them up.
  
  I think the issue is that many Lemmy users will think more carefully about what they comment than what they up/downvote, as a comment appears connected to your username but a vote doesn't. You might decide against commenting on something you disagree with because you don't want to get in a fight, instead just downvoting it, but if people then know if was you who downvoted can still pick the fight.
  Basically the issue is you're revealing a lot more information than you might initially have realised if you'd have known votes were public all along. Maybe a disgruntled person uses that to dox you, or maybe a corpo feeds all that information into their fancy computer system to work out who you might be, who knows.
- Cant you just defed with them?
  
  If you can identify all of their instances, yes.

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