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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[-] IlovePizza@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I read about that. In my opinion is that what should change, if possible. There are good reasons why votes a secret in democracies.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 23 points 4 months ago

That would be great. I'm not sure how to solve the problems that arises though. If i can send an anonymous vote to an instance, what stops me from sending 100?
Maybe there's some smart cryptographical solution here that alludes me, but it seems hard, if possible.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

You could just hash your username+instance combo, right?

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago

hmm, how would the receiving instance verify? what happens if I send 100 random hashes?

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

This is literally already a problem. I can easily set up an instance and write a simple bot which just spams votes with randomized user strings. There are generally a bunch of these functional vulnerabilities in the AP trust model which are only mitigated by the current lack of scale. Work needs to be put into reworking the trust model, not exposing user telemetry to even more people.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago

I can easily set up an instance and write a simple bot which just spams votes with randomized user strings.

Well you can do that for a little bit, until your instance gets found out and it gets defederated. And you need to pay for a new domain if you want to do it again. So the current system actually makes it cost real money to do this spam you're talking about.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Sure, but the detection and enforcement mechanism would be the same as it is now.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

well, since the voting is public it's easy to remove your votes and block your instance after the fact

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Each instance could store a static private key used to encrypt all usernames in that instance maybe?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 4 months ago

Then again, private votes would be private for mods and admins too. So no more moderating vote brigading or downvote abuse or anything like that.

[-] IlovePizza@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Good point. Would it be useful to somewhat anonymize them by giving every user a unique code? So admins would see these codes but not easily know what users they represent.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 points 4 months ago

I'm afraid this may enable a malicious instance to use this mechanism to manipulate votes while making it much harder to detect. I think transparent voting is much preferable.

[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

If we look at any of the big social media platforms with public votes, that has not prevented voting abuse through bots and the like. Rather it has served to fuel online harrassment campaigns and value of influential individuals votes (ooh Bill Gates liked X, Kamala Harris disliked Y etc.)

Aggregating votes rather than having individually visible votes serves the purpose of shifting focus to how the community values of the content. It's the same reason that we follow communities rather than people.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago

Vote aggregates would be insanely easy to maliciously manipulate. Also, the underlying protocol has no support for vote aggregates so this isn't even an option in the first place.

[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Votes already are presented to the end user in an aggregated fashion, as opposed to how it is on kbin/mbin. In any case, even in the current implementation manipulation is relatively easy, as an admin can just spin up extra accounts. The fediverse relies on trust.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

There are good reasons why votes a secret in democracies.

Because voters only receive a voting ballot after they identify themselves as a real citizen with a real passport?

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Passport required? Shit, most of our country would be ineligible to vote as they can't afford to travel out of the country for vacations enough to keep up to date passports. Valid up to date passports are around 40% of the population in the U.S. I believe it is trending up though. Pre 9-11 they were way lower. (Because you didn't really need a passport to go on short trips, just an ID)

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Even on github they are public. Lol

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