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Bad post. Ofc the person running the server can see who votes. Your original post made it seem like anyone has access to this data.

Well, that's probably a wrong kind of 'open' to what FOSS means by 'open' yet I'm not convinced. With the whole 'anybody can make an instance and collect all the data they wan't it's kind of awkward and messy. How much of the said data you can obscure/encode without losing the openness between instances?

Because if one instance can't verify actions of another then you have an issue dealing with bots and overall the platform becomes way more obscure and less reliable as a source of information.

And like if the buttons themselves had an ability to openly show who upvoted/downvoted a post - how much of a difference would've been here? I don't feel like it's such a concern.

The point about deletion/edits - it's not about removing your info from the internet, it's about correcting what's wrong for the sake of providing correct. If it's on the internet once it's there forever. I don't see people complaining about weyback archive doing their thing. Yet it's doing exactly the same thing possibility of which upsets so many people here.

If you monkey brain posted you home address and where the keys are - it's on you, not on the internet for storing the info.

The only real point I see here is corporations/governments scraping all this data for their use. Yet as long as they can federate there's nothing much to do and if you try to restrict federation then it's just a bunch of forums with extra features.

I've been in forums where upvotes were public. It's not something that I expect to be anonymous by design.

That being said. If something is public, it should be clear that is public (and available to everyone), if it's not it should be protected.

I think Lemmy should go one way or the other, or upvotes are public to everyone, or they are available only for you instance admins.

Shortly after joining I realized I was being a bit too honest on here lol. Can't help it. Haven't been on SM in a few days, in hiding from people, now back to my ditch to die. Love you!

Back in my day everyone knew that once you put something on the internet it's there forever to be seen by all. Has everyone already forgotten this? This is nothing new and in fact the way it's always been! Now get off my lawn!

Yes.

Just muddling around I've built queries that: (a) list all of my post & comments, everybody who voted on them, and their votes (b) tally how many times specific users have upvoted or downvoted me. (c) identifies the most prolific voters across the Fediverse and the communities they are voting in (d) identifies users with the same username or display name across all instances and correlates the activities across those accounts.

These are all for the sake of learning and are innocuos the way I'm using them. It is plain to see that someone with skills and an agenda could make more out of it than I have.

ITT: we muddy the waters and people get scared because they don’t know how deep they are anymore despite standing in it

Good data if you're trying to find the homophobes and transphobes who think they're "infiltrating" and voting down every single one of those posts. They out themselves.

What about private messages? We should assume the person running the instance can read all private messages.