Lemmy v0.19.11 allows community moderators to see user vote records (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 2 months ago by ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Apologies if this is the wrong comm, I'm not Matrix verified so probably can't post in !hexbear@hexbear.net

Just thought I should mention this before admins end up doing the upgrade. Most federated instances, including lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad have already upgraded by now.

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[-] spectre@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Also a federated non-Lemmy software can also see all votes, and can choose whether to display them or not. Votes have never been private and never can be. They're just hidden away.

If any common user wants to see them, they can set up their own server (thus becoming the admin) and pull in any federated content they want to see the details of.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

This is true, although with Hexbear specifically, you might have to get approval to federate

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right, I hope that our mods would defed any instance acting in bad faith, but it's possible that if something were to change it would be too late anyway since that instance would have all the data already.