Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
This is not the case. What percentage of the population could set up a Lemmy server, do you think? 1%? 0.1%? Of those, what percentage have the time to set up a Lemmy server? 1%?
Yes I know. Mbin and Kbin should be encouraged to change this. We’re currently in a fairly benign environment so it doesn’t really matter but if the threadiverse ever got big then this could become serious enough to be a cause for defederation.
It is not about percentage, it is about accessibility to motivated bad actors. Far right groups routinely manage to get access to police files. Setting up a Lemmy instance is much easier and they will gladly provide the tools for their brigade.
It may not be purely binary, but there is not a lot of practical difference between “doable by anyone in 10 minutes” and “doable by a geek in hours”.
People should be mindful that their votes are, for all intent and purpose, public on lemmy.
EDIT: Just saw your recent post about anonymous voting, that’s brillant! I discovered piefed only two days ago and I am already loving a lot of aspects of it.
This is not the case. What percentage of the population could set up a Lemmy server, do you think? 1%? 0.1%? Of those, what percentage have the time to set up a Lemmy server? 1%?
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Yes I know. Mbin and Kbin should be encouraged to change this. We’re currently in a fairly benign environment so it doesn’t really matter but if the threadiverse ever got big then this could become serious enough to be a cause for defederation.
Who are you to impose how others run their instance? Clearly this should be an option that each instance can set by itself.
Mbin shows only up votes. I think so. I don’t know if this is the case on all servers.
It is not about percentage, it is about accessibility to motivated bad actors. Far right groups routinely manage to get access to police files. Setting up a Lemmy instance is much easier and they will gladly provide the tools for their brigade.
It may not be purely binary, but there is not a lot of practical difference between “doable by anyone in 10 minutes” and “doable by a geek in hours”.
People should be mindful that their votes are, for all intent and purpose, public on lemmy.
EDIT: Just saw your recent post about anonymous voting, that’s brillant! I discovered piefed only two days ago and I am already loving a lot of aspects of it.