You don't need to be federated to read people's activities...
Even if there was some type of "authorized fetch" involved, one could bypass it easily by writing a bot on LW to get the data. Then what?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Ok, yeah, theoretically.

But we're talking about putting voting info into the UI for anyone to see. Not highly motivated and skilled bad actors.

[–] rglullis 17 points 2 months ago (13 children)

And the "we should not make it available for the public at large because it will lead to abuse" is also theoretical.

Anyway, I'm already on record saying that I don't like the voting system and that we should get rid of it altogether. Voting on content used to be about collective curation, not a constant popularity contest.

I'm also on record saying that we need to stop relying on systems that only give us the illusion of privacy and depend on the software developers for culture shaping.

If making the vote public gets people to be exposed to these fundamental issues of the current design, and leads us to search for better solutions, then I'm all for it.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

the illusion of privacy

i am from the post usenet and pre facebook internet generation (i hope that is vague enough) so using my real name on the internet or signing up for accounts with my real name email acount is strictly verboten by indoctrination, so my opinion may be out of date or invalid somehow, but i can not see how your lemmy account's up or down voting history violates privacy in any meaningful way

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