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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (32 children)

I didnt know about that. This is a bit scary to be honest, and the first time I feel a bit taken aback with lemmy

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

You also know that all votes are technically public and can be viewed by any instance admin that's federated with the server a community is on, right? There's no way to see that in the Lemmy UI at the moment but the data is there on the server.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

There's no way to see that in the Lemmy UI at the moment but the data is there on the server.

Actually, they're adding it into the UI for admins. And they're letting mods see to.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2320

Rather than do anything to try and protect this data or obfuscate it in any way, they just decided "fuck it".

And that's frankly worrying. I truly don't think people understand why Reddit didn't let mods see that information. The avenues for abuse here are innumerable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Obfuscation is meaningless. It's public info or it's not. In this case it's necessarily public

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