Besides it’s a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don’t understand how the fediverse work and what I’m asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user. How to avoid vote brigading on here? Can it be automated?

I’m not pissed and I do know I post literal shit sometimes. It’s just I’m wondering, if our fedieverse have machanics against that.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      5·
      1 year ago

      I agree, but I really don’t see any other possible way to do this other than either having one entity in charge of voting information (all this power in one place leads to just having reddit again) or to just not store it (would make it trivial to manipulate votes). I think this is unfortunate just a limitation of federated software. All the information must be public. Even the contents of direct messages are visible in the database. I think can see every direct message between everyone on any instance federated with mine, though I haven’t actually checked.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        1 year ago

        If you can see DMs between 2 e.g. sh.itjust.works users that’s very worrying, but if you can only see messages where one participant is registered on your instance, that’s just natural.

        Other than that, I think vote information should only be visible to

        • the instance’s admins where the user is registered
        • the community’s mods (and in turn the admins of it’s instance) where the reaction has taken place,
          and not to any and all instance admin who is federating with your instance.
        • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I strongly disagree with a community’s mods being able to see user vote information. As a mod, I can’t even see the names of subscribers, and I like it that way. I don’t want responsibility for user’s privacy, or I’d host my own instance and put the community there.

      • derekabutton@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I agree that it is a limitation of the nature of federated software. All the same, it makes me nervous to interact. I would feel much better if it wasn’t every instance owner, but just the owner of the one your account came from, or perhaps the one you were interacting with. I’m not anonymous enough to feel comfortable.

    • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      You’d probably be better off on an instance that has removed downvotes then. Being scared to upvote/downvote just because someone might want to look at an SQL database to find out it was you is insane. The percentage of people even bothering to do something like that is so miniscule.