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Lemmy devs are looking to make votes public. Thoughts? (github.com)
submitted 6 months ago by PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I'm not trans myself and I didn't want to take up their space.

Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.

I don't have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing, frankly as a cishet dude.

But also... I've kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won't make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic's transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don't matter to the Lemmy dev team...to be charitable...so I'd really like to hear your thoughts.

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[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm going to be real with you. I've been able to see all votes on lemmy publicly for years. You should just make them public, because I've been scraping you and collecting statistics on how much you use bots.

Just make them public or I'm the only one who can do this. Your choice. Being helpful for fun here.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is it, the silver legion finally shows its face again

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Is that from Fallout or something [Yandexes]. Oh. Oh no. No no this is more like secret admirer behavior. As long as you keep pumping the Fedidb stats I'm okay with it for now.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There was this weird troll who called themselves the silver legion and claimed they would destroy hexbear or something, we all found it hilarious at the time

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

I'm not going to destroy Hexbear. This came from the same place as creating an RSS feed that aggregates all comments on Lemmy websites. I just don't feel like sharing solutions after I offer them the first time and get rebuked.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd always heard that Lemmy votes were public from the very beginning. This is the first I've heard that they're "supposed to be" private.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

They are. Just because you didn't implement federation properly doesn't mean it's unavailable.

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wait until you realize there is a secret method to get your total karma score.

spoilerit's arithmetic

Just because it is possible for some loser to do something doesn't mean it's a good idea for it to be a built in feature.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

As admins we can by default. Everyone should have this feature imo

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Actually it's very unlikely I am the only one who figured this out. Everyone knows activitypub is buggy and full of amateur devs. It's more likely I'm the only guy sportsmanlike and megalomaniacal enough to admit this.

[–] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

megalomaniacal

Nerds find one exploit on a website and think they're God

Megadork

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Okay then can you guess the insanely obvious pathway I used to make your votes public?

[–] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Can you guess the insanely obvious pathway I shove my dildo in to make myself cum?

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

URETHRA!!!! URETHRRA!!!!! URETHREA!!!!!! OOOOOUGG URETHRAAA!!!

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bro quit while you ahead.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

I literally want everyone else to share my vision. I will never "quit while I am ahead"!

[–] blame@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Don't be cringe. You found a funny bug, just enjoy it.

oh the method is described in the github issue lmao.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

😂 This doesn't take technical expertise

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lmao if you think you're the only megalomaniac on the fediverse I got news for you

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Uh nobody would say that in the middle of one of vantablack's sprees