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You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk -2 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy likes aren't meant to be public, this is just other software failing to respect the privacy Lemmy indicates.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's almost as bad as using robots.txt to claim sites are private and secure and just whining that people/bots should respect it.

You should assume voter data is fully public and fully open. It otherwise is in the federated ecosystem.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The comparison doesn't work because both Lemmy and Mbin are implementing the same standard, while robots.txt is mostly an honour system.

You should assume voter data is fully public and fully open. It otherwise is in the federated ecosystem.

Information not being private isn't the same thing as information being public.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

idk, the label is also an honor system, if it can be just ignored like robots.txt.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't explain what I meant very well. To scrape a website you don't need to understand robots.txt, implementing robots.txt is something you do to be a good netizen. But to get like info from Lemmy, implementing ActivityPub is a requirement.

Now I'll admit, it's not a great system and I do wish we had something better, but I also don't think "this isn't a good way to communicate preferences" is a good reason to ignore them.