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Who have logs of how users vote?
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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I think the instance admins might have access to this via their database.
Do you mean my home instance or where I participate from it?
I think you can see it from any instance that's federated with you. I am an instance admin for an instance where I am the only user, and I can see who is upvoting and downvoting you, who has a different home instance and is posting on a third instance.
Theoretically, you could create your own instance just to view this information.
Though, I am not a huge fan of making this information publicly visible because I think it will discourage people from voting if they know everyone can see how they voted. If you wanted to just check it for yourself, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think we should make every interaction publicly available, until we find a way to actually make it private. As you've said, anyone who wants and have the means will see the information anyway.
It shouldn't be terribly hard to create software that federates with other servers, but only for the purpose of displaying stuff like this.
That would be extremely easy. Other instances could probably defederate to to not have their data crawled, but I'm not 100% certain they would know which instance to defederate from.
If it was open source, lots of folks could run a node. The data could published on another site that would make it hard to figure out where it was coming from.