Just thought I should mention this before admins end up doing the upgrade. Most federated instances, including lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad have already upgraded by now.

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[–] spectre@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also a federated non-Lemmy software can also see all votes, and can choose whether to display them or not. Votes have never been private and never can be. They're just hidden away.

If any common user wants to see them, they can set up their own server (thus becoming the admin) and pull in any federated content they want to see the details of.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is true, although with Hexbear specifically, you might have to get approval to federate

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Right, I hope that our mods would defed any instance acting in bad faith, but it's possible that if something were to change it would be too late anyway since that instance would have all the data already.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I think we operate on an allowlist system as opposed to a blocklist system like many other instances