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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

oh, okay. It's nice that it's possible to do this.

Every server should do this.

I would say that's for them to decide

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I doubt they've asked their users if they want this spying tool to hoover up their votes.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Alright, let me ask you to clear this up for me please. I'm not a developer so I might need some simplification. This Lemvotes thing asks a Lemmy server to give up the users having voted on a particular post. For this to work I would assume the server in question must comply with this request, or store this information in a way that's accessible in the first place ?

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    You can read the full context of this here.

    Votes are transparently federated, but only shown to admins via a few special endpoints, in order to fight one of the biggest spam vectors currently on the fediverse, which is federated downvote spammers. Lemvotes is a single user server / spying tool to circumvent that reasonable expectation of user privacy.

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