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  • Dark ArcA
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, it’s actually … a bit creepy.

    Federated voting in general seems like it could use some rethinking to enable private voting but also to protect against vote manipulation. Right now the fediverse is arguably incredibly vulnerable to vote manipulation campaigns.

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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      6 months ago

      I was wondering about this. If they didn’t keep track of who is voting, manipulation would be easier then it already is. The problem is that rogue instance admins could make votes public.

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        6 months ago

        One possible answer is to allow anyone to see votes categorized by instance, so you know where they’re originating from.

        Small/single user instances could be aggregated together/anonymized or maybe that’s just the price you pay for having a single user instance.