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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 2 months ago (20 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.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

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

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] blame@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

😂 This doesn't take technical expertise

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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