Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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this is an icky issue because lemmy sends votes with empty addressing, so remote instances should count them but not show them to anyone. however mastodon (and *key) sends likes with empty addressing too, but considers them public. lemmy is (surprisingly) right here and should request that the rest of fedi respects the protocol and hides stuff based on its addressing. maybe open issues on mastodon and friendica
also this issue probably exists when seeing lemmy posts on any microblogging instance
I was thinking that it would make sense to federate upvotes, but with the hash of your username instead of your actual handle. Would this work?
One of the advantages of votes being public is that it keeps instance owners honest and, perhaps more importantly, means they know other instance owners are honest.
If they weren't public it would be easy to modify your lemmy instance to send 10 votes with fake hashes for every real vote. There would be constant accusations of brigading and faking votes.
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How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?
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I wish I could see what scummy lemm.ee mods removed my comments and got me banned
That's pretty cool. Sometimes in an argument there's that (1/-1) thing going on, would be funny to see how both are downvoting each other.