You’d have to change the specification there. That is possible but it will take some time.

Then they should do so, these issues need to be fixed ASAP.

Still you’d need a way to make votes not bound to a user and still hard to spoof.

Obfuscating user IDs via a hash or something would seem like the way to make it work. I'm not a professional programmer, I only know a little bit of python, so I have no idea if I'm talking nonsense on that front. And whilst still not an ideal solution, but sharing non-private votes with your own instance admin and have them share only the total vote count with other instances is another solution. That way you need only trust your instance admin, which is choosable and can also be yourself.

That is what it means. If you have one then go ahead.

Putting the onus on me is a shitty thing to do. I'm not the one running this site in any capacity, but this is an issue that many users are unhappy with. If the issue with the site won't or even can't be fixed, then I will simply not use the site. I don't know how many people feel the same on that front, but I'd imagine there's quite a few.

Agreed, I am incredibly confused by what seems to be the majority reaction to this.

I've never been particularly involved with the FOSS community, though I do use a few FOSS apps and generally appreciate their view on what FOSS means. I also strongly appreciate data privacy, and it was my observation that the FOSS community was (generally) relatively the same way. So to see this reaction is very surprising. It's quite literally the same terrible argument of "Why fear it if you have nothing to hide" used against multiple data privacy concerns throughout the years.

I think the worst are the bad faith "But Reddit...!" arguments. For one, we're not on Reddit anymore, this is about Lemmy's issues that can be corrected. And for two, whilst Reddit potentially outsourcing that data to the highest bidder is far from ideal, at the very least the data wasn't outright PUBLIC to anyone who wishes to set up a simple server.

Ah yes, because the practical option is to be constantly switching accounts and instances based on what you want to look at for 5 minutes each.

I agree with what you're saying, but that's not the point of this post. This post is about the fact that an individual user's vote history is semi-public.

i.e. if you were to upvote my comment, anyone who owns an instance would be able to see it was you who upvoted it. Likewise for if you downvote it.

Whilst I'm sure there are those who don't care, I'd personally rather not have any rando who can be bothered to set up a Lemmy instance know what I've voted on. I'd honestly rather just not vote.

This sounds like a very different show to the one this post is about.

do the rules apply to the instance where you have your account, or to the instance where you’re posting/commenting?

That is essentially what I was asking. It kind of seems like it's both, but I'm no fediverse expert.

I guess it really just depends how much of a stickler the lemmy.world mods are, and/or if they have any way of finding out I'm linking to stuff like that.

Not sure where to ask this, so I'll ask here. Linking to pirate sites (not content) is okay here as I understand it. However my account is with Lemmy.world, which in its "rules" specifically states "Protect our community from harassment, malicious or illegal content". Would I technically be at the whim of Lemmy.world by linking to pirate sites, or do I have some leeway here?

I also think there's an element of time spent with Reddit. For some of us who've been with the site for over a decade, this is the last straw with Reddit. For many others, its their first incident.

My main usage case of Reddit was for the more niche communities by and large, so I can definitely appreciate that.

It's the case at the moment where the "popular" communities feel niche, or at least similar to how they did when I first started Reddit back in 2012, and unfortunately the formerly niche Reddit communities are essentially non-existent here. I view this as an issue that will be fixed with time though, should Lemmy continue growing of course, so I don't really have a complaint about that for the moment.

My main issue is that it doesn't all come under one big "Lemmy" umbrella. Different instances have different rules and different accounts by definition of a federated space. I just think things are better managed if the site aligns with a single goal and singular ruleset, rather than having loads of little separate ones. I acknowledge this is entirely personal taste, I have no desire to force my viewpoint, it's just how I feel about it.

Defederation is also a big issue. There's lots of claims that federating the site prevents the next Spez for example. In my view, it really just opens up the possibility of a lot of micro-spezs. There's theoretically nothing stopping the guy who runs lemmy.world from pulling the plug tomorrow, leaving myself and whoever is left to try and pick up the pieces. This is true of any instance and the accounts and communities contained by said instance. Even if it's not quite as drastic as pulling the plug, they could certainly pull my access from here, which would be rather frustrating.

Again, I do believe it ultimately comes down to personal preference. I think I'm just more willing to put trust behind a larger entity than a bunch of smaller ones.

It's what I dislike the most about the fediverse concept. It's nice in principle, but it's all far too fragmented, which not only makes it a lot easier to target specific servers, it also introduces the concern that is defederation.

The open source part is great, but the federation part will take a long time yet to convince me, if it ever does.

Honestly PrequelMemes is the largest subreddit I'd likely miss the most from Reddit. That and lotrmemes. It's good to see it's found a home here already!

Not that guy, but last year they got acquired by Branch, an analytics company. Android Police article about it here. The same company also acquired Sesame of Sesame Universal Search.

To clarify, I'm unaware if they've done anything suspicious since the acquistion, but potentially giving an analytics company launcher level access raised eyebrows for more than a few people, myself included.