AwesomeLowlander

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

Yeah, 3rd party links are a tougher nut to crack. You’d think they could at least fix the local links, though.

I can think of a few potential solutions, but they’d all require a lot of user opt in and centralisation, which makes it unlikely to ever happen.

You’re missing the point. You should never leave your home instance. Lemmy could automatically remap links to whatever your home instance is before you ever click on them.

You’ve never seen superfans print out and bind a webnovel, huh 😛

I’ll go out on a limb and guess China was mentioned somewhere

Not really any different on lemmy, sadly

Why are you attacking somebody who’s backing you up? Sheesh

Kind of sad how many communities are on .ml. Would like to block the entire server but lose too much content.

If they’re posting on a .ml community, it’ll get censored

Don’t think LW has the language filter active. .ml is the one that has it active that I’m aware of

I disagree.

Probably unmodded and open to automated signups leading to troll and bot infestations.

IKR? Couldn’t they have run it through a spellchecker before registering the domain?

Can’t quite place my tooth on why, but I get the feeling this might be one of those AI generated pics I hear so much about