There is always an xkcd!

So many times I google something obscure, the top result is the same question asked on some forum with a single reply, “just google it”

som kind of bot going down maybe?

the latter, they are the largest instances, and it’s generally healthy to spread stuff out

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

I’ve learned today kbin and mbin exposes it to users too

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

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

precisely

and runket translates to “the jerk”, as in a noun referring the act of (and/or the result of…) rubbing one out.

I’m telling this story from memory

pun intended? ;D