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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

If everyone's votes are public then it seems trivial to see how any particular user votes.

If user shithead69420 downvotes literally everything I post, they're probably not a good faith user.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, but that's kind of my point?

if downvotes are public, the admin of your instance can see who is downvoting you and then they can take action. If the downvotes are coming from an instance that hides the real user for every vote, you and the admin are SOL.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I see, you were talking about a hypothetical where all instances hide their votes and so no one knows who is voting on anything.

My assumption was that these vote records would remain transparent on most instances because the instances that hide their votes just get defederated, because those are always going to be instances where trolls hide.

this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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