As it was recently discussed a lot of the data you generate while using the fediverse is public. If we're looking at the threadiverse even more of it is public including your votes.
I only know the specifics of Mastodon and mbin, so maybe @rimu@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @julian@community.nodebb.org and other devs can chime in here.
Voting on Mastodon is a lot more private than voting in the threadiverse. Only the author of a post (and their instance) knows everyone who voted on a post. Everybody else can retrieve the total numbers, but not the individual votes. Of course this comes with the downside that everyone else has to fetch this data and while the instance could send an Update activity - informing other instances that the numbers changed - Mastodon currently does not do that.
In the threadiverse on the other hand, every single vote gets send around the network, including all the details.
I would like the threadiverse software to get a bit better at privacy. Mastodon is often restrictive with activities for that exact reason and while I do not want to completely screw visibility by not sending anything to anyone, I think the visibility of votes can be improved a lot.
So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. The magazine then announces this Update activity to all its subscribers. The post object has to contain the relevant numbers of course and Mastodon and PeerTube use shares, likes and dislikes (PeerTube only). These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted, that would defeat the purpose (looking at you PeerTube)
Because nobody wants to break federation with other software, it would be nice if this could be coordinated between all the threadiverse actors
Ah that is interesting, I missed that the first time.
So the author instance would be responsible for federating activities, not the instance hosting the community? That could be very beneficial for spreading load across the network! But maybe it would complicate moderation because the author could ignore moderator's commands to delete the post and stop federating it.
Hi, Can you please reply to me via email? My real full name has been displayed via your mod log on Lemmy.world. I am respectfully requesting you to either remove or block this post from the public views.
Log into your account and change your display name in the settings.
Hello,
@rimu@piefed.social
Unfortunately, I cannot change the display name of account as it won't let me log into piefed.social. It says, "Account registrations are currently closed." Can you remove contents from the mod log on Lemmy.world? If it is an instance you can access and moderate, let me know. Reply back to me here or send a private message once you have removed my full name or the entire post from the mods log of Lemmy.world.
Thank you.
Nora P.
rimu didn't read your post correctly, changing your display name to match your real name is not necessary or advisable, likewise signing public comments (you can edit them by clicking on the pen button).
Since the offending comment is made from a user on the anarchist.nexus server I have asked one of the admins there (unruffled) on your behalf, I hope that was ok. I think they can "purge" the comment, meaning they can delete it in such a way that every other server it got sent to receives a notification to delete it as well.