Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.
It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.
It’s public to stop vote manipulation and brigading. When you can see that a ton of up/downvotes on a post all come from 37 alts of the same user, it makes it easier to ban those people.
How can people find out who’s using alts? I’ve got this quarkboard with red string I’m trying to connect people on based on their tone and their personal bugbears.
Relaaaaax, guy. It’s way more rad than I made it sound:
It’s easy when they’re stupid enough to name them all the same thing.
*glancing nervously at the other sad_detective accounts I use on other instances*
hahaaa yeah. So dumb…
Its also a liability to allow people, companies and governments to track people across the platforms and target them for the posts they up or down voted. Its a poorly conceived solution.
The same people, companies and governments could do the same with every other social media service. At least here, everyone can see the vote counts; not just the admins and an authority that subpoenas them.
That just increases the number of predators and victims…
It has to if you want federated servers. You spin up a server, it needs to know everything it subscribes to.
There is no solution, because it is not a problem. That’s just the nature of a federated system.
If I walk in the park, I risk people taking pictures of me. That’s the thing about parks, they’re public open spaces. The only solution is to stay home.