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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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This kills the Lemmy.
How come?
Because it is giving in to the already problematic functionality of AP, which is the fact that way too much user telemetry is exposed to way too may people as it stands. Work should focus on making AP more private, not less.
There is nothing in the AP spec which states that user strings need to be plaintext. Lemmy should be building out tools which allow AP participants to optionally participate via tokenized user strings.
That's a fair opinion, but this is clearly not the place for that discussion, neither is the Lemmy GitHub repository. ActivityPub has channels for that itself.
Meanwhile, while ActivityPub still has this state of making votes effectively public, we should decide how Lemmy should handle that. We can always change that if ActivityPub changes later, but that is probably years away, if not forever away.
Best option for privacy is not to vote
As mentioned previously "this kills the Lemmy". Threaded discussion platforms rely on voting to sort posts and comments.
I can't imagine as big of a chunk are so worried about their privacy that they'd affect Lemmy overall. It's just votes, who cares