Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the “voting account” behind the scenes.
I don’t know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.
Just double checked, you’re right. It can still scrape piefed votes for users. I think maybe the way piefed url’s work isn’t automatically compatible with the format lemvotes needs for individual posts. That’s why I thought they were obscured
Yes for sure, but you were talking about unhinged reddit profile detectives. I only ask because I have conflicted feelings and am trying to figure out how to be less worried about it here
How do you feel about the lack of obfuscation on Fediverse? Piefed hides votes but otherwise we’re all kind of wide open to eachother
Small correction: Piefed no longer obsfucates votes.
Really? How recently was that? Do you mean like fuzzing the numbers like reddit or can they be scraped by lemvotes now?
Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the “voting account” behind the scenes.
I don’t know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.
Just double checked, you’re right. It can still scrape piefed votes for users. I think maybe the way piefed url’s work isn’t automatically compatible with the format lemvotes needs for individual posts. That’s why I thought they were obscured
That’s just where the internet is now; everything is accessible. Your public data is scraped and your private data is sold.
Yes for sure, but you were talking about unhinged reddit profile detectives. I only ask because I have conflicted feelings and am trying to figure out how to be less worried about it here
This is just the nature of the format. I quickly learned the unsubtle art of not caring if random strangers don’t like me.
noooooooooooooo we hates the panopticon 😖 I want to upvote unhinged stuff