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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Pseudonymous voting doesn't mean a unique ID for every vote. It just means the user string itself is tokenized. You can still ban participation for that token without revealing the actual user. Literally the only thing this stops is easily seeing users who use the same name across several instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the token is the same for the user across different posts, it would be easy to figure out who is actually behind the token by correlating voting patterns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It would at least provide a means for obfuscating identity for users who care to make an effort. All you'd have to do is not vote when you comment and vice versa.