The amount of bots, spam and other problematic content would be overwhelming for admins to moderate, most instances would just defederate on day 0.
The amount of bots, spam and other problematic content would be overwhelming for admins to moderate, most instances would just defederate on day 0.
That’s what PieFed changes though. You can still track how someone votes
You need a way to identify which profile is tied to the vote profile so that you can deal with the root account.
Admins need a way to track votes to detect abuse/bots though. And anyone can be an admin if they set up an instance, so votes will still be public.
Vote manipulation
Hmm, I can understand how someone can be concerned about that, but personally I find it too theoretical and unlikely to matter.
Any company wanting to harvest data from the fediverse would likely just create their own instance to easily copy the databases from every major instance, private voting wouldn’t help against that. I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.
If you only lurk, you will stay anonymous as long as you use an anonymous username. If you comment, you are way more likely to “leak” your opinion through comments anyway.
But those are just my thoughts, I might be way off base and lack the full range of perspectives.
To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.
I guess I’m just of the opinion that if someone has that concern, they should rethink how they use social platforms and maybe look into creating a more anonymous profile that suits their need better.
But now we are just down to differing opinions, which is all fine to have, I won’t claim my thoughts are the best one.
I have felt the want to have a more anonymous profile from time to time since being an admin means I need to avoid controversial topics, but it isn’t any more difficult than simply not engaging with it.
Votes doesn’t break the anonymity is my point. You achieve anonymity by using a fake name and not sharing too much personal information in your comments. No amount of voting will reveal that fj4j2l32@instance.com is Jonathan Brown from Newcastle.
I’m surprised most people are against public votes. Most people already seem to have an anonymous account via some weird username not connected to their real identity already. What difference does it make that votes can be viewed, other than for transparency during discussion?
Maybe I’m the odd one out that uses my real name on the Internet and generally try to behave/vote the same as I would in person, but it seems weird wanting a hybrid account that’s private (votes), yet not private (comments).
It’s against the CoC of programming.dev and we have issued warnings to abusers before. Last warning given for that was 13 days ago and was spotted by a normal user.
Someone can easily host a website to leak this information
Anyone with a kbin account see them by default, no need to create a special website for it
Just wanted to point out that
if you scroll All, you’re going to see all.
Doesn’t work the same way on Lemmy as on reddit. Some instances will filter out most politics (something OP complained about) from c/all, meaning scrolling c/all won’t have you see all
Some instances, like programming.dev, hides political and porn communities by default, meaning you have to directly subscribe to see any content from those communities. So c/all isn’t all for all instances.
It’s the websites that requires all the memory, the browser can’t magically take less memory than what a website demands.
Edit: if you see a still image, you may need to click on the gif for it to play.