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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. If private votes were intended, Lemmy servers would have had voting privacy setting where the vote is federated as @privacy-vote-{sha256sum userid & postid}@instance.foo instead of the actual voter's username.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not privacy-protecting. You can easily deduct the voter by enumeration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

A privately-stored salt would fix that :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Then what is the point of hashing the data? Just use an UUID.

Anyway, this is all pointless bike shedding because the activity needs to be associated with the actor, as it can only be accepted if the signature can be verified.