If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account
If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account
I've created this post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8898162
And some admin showed they can see how the upvotes\downvotes go.
If you are concerned about privacy, you should know, that this data on Lemmy can be easily mined and tracked.
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@andrew_bidlaw this feature request for KBin to change voting so it is NOT public from 5 months ago has a lot of examples of why public voting can be dangerous, but there doesn't appear to be much interest in changing how this works in KBin or MBin.
Thank you for the link.
I can imagine a couple of ways it can be obfuscated, but here in your link I've been reminded ActivityPub also serves Mastodon, where interactions are way less impersonal by design.