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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.
This is it, the silver legion finally shows its face again
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.
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'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.
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.
They are. Just because you didn't implement federation properly doesn't mean it's unavailable.
wait until you realize there is a secret method to get your total karma score.
spoiler
it's arithmeticJust 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.
I smell desperation
As admins we can by default. Everyone should have this feature imo
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.
Nerds find one exploit on a website and think they're God
Megadork
Okay then can you guess the insanely obvious pathway I used to make your votes public?
Can you guess the insanely obvious pathway I shove my dildo in to make myself cum?
URETHRA!!!! URETHRRA!!!!! URETHREA!!!!!! OOOOOUGG URETHRAAA!!!
Bro quit while you ahead.
I literally want everyone else to share my vision. I will never "quit while I am ahead"!
Don't be cringe. You found a funny bug, just enjoy it.
oh the method is described in the github issue lmao.
😂 This doesn't take technical expertise
Lmao if you think you're the only megalomaniac on the fediverse I got news for you
Uh nobody would say that in the middle of one of vantablack's sprees