AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?English
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3 months agoIf votes became truly public
There’s no ‘if’, they already are.
what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?
The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.
Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.
No, anybody can currently do this.
That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.
There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq