A big thing is that all your voting activity, while we it appears private is actually"broadcast" to all the servers in the fediverse without any actual verification of who runs it. I learned this after setting up an instance and finding out that it’s possible to list all votes on any post, not just activity on my instance. So I’m not sure if privacy is actually a good selling point.
This is a different aspect of privacy here. People otherwise are thinking about E2EE, and verification - not specifically public logs of public activities.
Other two ways to visualise this info is through https://lemvotes.org/ (note: instances might opt out) and by being a moderator.
In fact I low-key wish this info was available for everyone right at the UI level — just let us see who voted on what. It’s more transparent, and make people think a bit before voting on stuff.
A big thing is that all your voting activity, while we it appears private is actually"broadcast" to all the servers in the fediverse without any actual verification of who runs it. I learned this after setting up an instance and finding out that it’s possible to list all votes on any post, not just activity on my instance. So I’m not sure if privacy is actually a good selling point.
This is a different aspect of privacy here. People otherwise are thinking about E2EE, and verification - not specifically public logs of public activities.
Other two ways to visualise this info is through https://lemvotes.org/ (note: instances might opt out) and by being a moderator.
In fact I low-key wish this info was available for everyone right at the UI level — just let us see who voted on what. It’s more transparent, and make people think a bit before voting on stuff.
Mastodon and similar services also show upvotes “likes” publicly, and I’m sure similar platforms with dislikes would also show them too.