• MBM@lemmings.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s not really possible to have an upvote counter without storing who voted, so your instance admin would always know

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      8 months ago

      There are cryptographic methods to do this, but it’s probably not worth it to implement them for this.

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        8 months ago

        Honestly, not implementing anonymous voting probably helps with preventing brigading, too. Reddit worldnews (around the api debacle began) became a nightmare of downvote bots towards anything that wasn’t “Israel = good” in any way, and so many spam articles upvoted to the surface from random, unverified sources.

        Edit to add: threat of defederation towards communities allowing or encouraging this behavior would probably be better, though.