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huh. neat

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Beyond upvote/downvote data is there anything else that is seen beyond whether someone had an arbitrary influence on a post?

I’m already questioning the whole system behind it, not just votes.

Say you have critical information that you want to delete but other instances can just ignore this deletion request, than I could technically write a plugin that uses an extra instance, to always display all deleted comments to me, despite me being a regular user.

For other sites you’d need a crawler, catching this information and all this in a rapid fashion to be usable, with a lot of programming extra work.

At this point we can as well remove the option to delete or edit a comment as everyone can host their own, which wouldn’t be possible with proprietary tools.

If someone can simply see votes the same way, we can as well add a mouse hover function that will display the username of whoever upvoted.

How do I get access to the DB? do I need to spin up my own Fedi and federate?

I don’t even know why upvoting and downvoting should be private in the first place

For as much as I love Lemmy, its obvious that it is an early software. Mark my words, that’s not the last privacy threat it will experience.

Good

Back in my day everyone knew that once you put something on the internet it’s there forever to be seen by all. Has everyone already forgotten this? This is nothing new and in fact the way it’s always been! Now get off my lawn!

Yea is good to know. I knew that early bc someone said that someone else accosted them after they reduced/downvoted one of their posts

Good to know but I always assume everything is public on the internet.

A government would only need to get its hands on one instance to havest downvote based dissent data.

Tbh I’d rather we had an up-only based vote system though. Downvotes had a lot to do with the reddit culture that I don’t want taking over Lemmy.

Good.

So noone will need to post “take my upvote comments”. Seems fine