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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.

yes, and any instance owner on any federated instance. Oh, and anyone on Kbin.

There I agree with you.
Making it public right now is useful to remove a dangerous false sense of privacy. But in the bigger picture I agree with you.

I wonder how one would solve that though. If you send a "vote" request without any user data, what stops you from sending 100?

To truly make that change, they would have to change how the federation works. Right now its visible to anyone who runs a server your server federates with.

I hear Mbin users can already see it.

admins and owners of any federated instance can already see votes.

tbf, github accounts are free

This is why they need to make this change, right now theres a false sense of privacy. If I really wanted to see your votes right now, all I need to do is to set up my own instance.

I think people misunderstand. I too would prefer privacy, but theres a big BUT.

Due to how the federation works, anyone who is tech savvy enough can already see votes. One way is to run an instance.

This change doesn't lower privacy, it aligns expectations with reality. A false sense of privacy, which people obviously show here in the comments, is way more dangerous.

mods already see votes

agreed.

What if banksy sued anyone who shared or archived photos of his wall art, that wouldn't make sense

don't misunderstand me now, i really don't want to defend record companies, but

legally they made deals and wrote contracts. It's not really the same thing.

this is the year of the linux desktop after all