• Jones
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    95 months ago

    I was of the assumption they were private. Please make them private then because I want no one looking at my votes

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      They can’t be completely private because instances have to share how many upvotes each post has. That’s a limitation of the fediverse, since everything is spread across many independent systems, data has to be exchanged across them.

      As of now, they’re semi-private because end users can’t easily see who voted on a post/comment unless they manage an instance themselves.

      • Jones
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        -15 months ago

        I know the amount of votes has to be shared, but I don’t see why other moderators (hell, even mods of the main instance) need to be able to see who voted on what

        • dantheclamman
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          25 months ago

          If they did that, anyone could spin up an instance and start just fabricating votes and there’d be no way to know

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      This would require a major change in the underlying ActivityPub protocol. This isn’t going to happen for years, if ever.