Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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Assuming each user will always encrypt to the same value, this still loses to statistical attacks.
As a simple example, users are e.g. more likely to vote on threads they comment in. With data reaching back far enough, people who exhibit "normal" behavior will be identified with high certainty.
Brigaders are less likely to engage in the conversation and just mass-downvote, or they might simply comment with their own id and downvote with an alt.
We can be here all day playing these cat-and-mouse games. The so-called "authorized fetch" from Mastodon is also another shortsighted idea.
Really, why can't we just stop pretending that we have any privacy in social media and just educate users to use the proper tools?