As it was recently discussed a lot of the data you generate while using the fediverse is public. If we’re looking at the threadiverse even more of it is public including your votes.
I only know the specifics of Mastodon and mbin, so maybe @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and other devs can chime in here.
Voting on Mastodon is a lot more private than voting in the threadiverse. Only the author of a post (and their instance) knows everyone who voted on a post. Everybody else can retrieve the total numbers, but not the individual votes. Of course this comes with the downside that everyone else has to fetch this data and while the instance could send an Update activity - informing other instances that the numbers changed - Mastodon currently does not do that.
In the threadiverse on the other hand, every single vote gets send around the network, including all the details.
I would like the threadiverse software to get a bit better at privacy. Mastodon is often restrictive with activities for that exact reason and while I do not want to completely screw visibility by not sending anything to anyone, I think the visibility of votes can be improved a lot.
So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. The magazine then announces this Update activity to all its subscribers. The post object has to contain the relevant numbers of course and Mastodon and PeerTube use shares, likes and dislikes (PeerTube only). These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted, that would defeat the purpose (looking at you PeerTube)
Because nobody wants to break federation with other software, it would be nice if this could be coordinated between all the threadiverse actors
I think the tagging them should suffice, I’ve tagged them before and they turned up 😄
hope you get this sorted 🤞
I honestly hope they will take this comment down. As I had said, my full name is still presented to the public but I don’t wish it to remain visible there. Can you also ask @[email protected] Of course @[email protected] can also reply back to me once this post has been erased. Unfortunately the final outcome of this case is not entirely up to me but Lemmy world and anarchist.nexus admins as they have that power to handle such requests. But I am willing to work closely with them to have this matter fully resolved.
I wrote in a chat visible to both of them, you have tagged them as well I’m sure they’ll see it soon.
Thank you for confirming it. I would really like one of their admins to perceive tagging and come back to me once this comment has been taken down. Unfortunately my name hasn’t disappeared yet but it should as I put efforts to have this case resolved with their admins.