I’m struggling to understand why anyone would join the Fediverse if this is a dealbreaker.
ActivityPub is like RSS and Sendmail had a baby that doesn’t respect your privacy at all. Every time you post, comment, or even vote, it’s blasted out to every server and user within the blast radius. If you delete something, there are dozens of databases and image proxy caches ready to ignore the delete request and host your regrettable post forever.
Every time you send a DM, you have to trust all the admins of both instances involved not to read the messages.
Way more is visible than it appears. With the right API calls people know what you upvoted and downvoted.
Both of those links worked just fine for me just now.
I’m beginning to suspect it’s a website that over-promises, because my understanding is that votes are only visible to instance admins and community moderators, so this website working would be entirely dependent upon someone from those lists contributing their “private” data.
Yeah, I think what lemvotes does is: act as an instance to receive posts and comments, but only for the purposes of showing the up/down votes.
Federation is pretty interesting, everything is relative, like:
if you’re on instance A posting to a community on instance B and someone from instance C upvotes, and instance A has defederated instance C, does that upvote count?
If you’re looking at it from an account on instance C yes, if you’re on instance A then no.
imagine you’re looking at this from instance D. Before instance C’s user upvoted, maybe you’d never heard of instance C so if someone asked you about that user you’d be like: huh? 404.
At least I think that’s how it works, idk I’m not an expert.
I’m struggling to understand why anyone would join the Fediverse if this is a dealbreaker.
ActivityPub is like RSS and Sendmail had a baby that doesn’t respect your privacy at all. Every time you post, comment, or even vote, it’s blasted out to every server and user within the blast radius. If you delete something, there are dozens of databases and image proxy caches ready to ignore the delete request and host your regrettable post forever.
Every time you send a DM, you have to trust all the admins of both instances involved not to read the messages.
Way more is visible than it appears. With the right API calls people know what you upvoted and downvoted.
lel they can just look here: https://lemvotes.org/
Always 404s for me.
Can you link an example post/comment that works properly?
I only ever get 404s over the handful of occasions in the months I’ve tried that website:
Sure, take a look at these:
Yeah it 404s for me sometimes too, and sometimes if I re-try it later it works, idk why.
Both of those links worked just fine for me just now.
I’m beginning to suspect it’s a website that over-promises, because my understanding is that votes are only visible to instance admins and community moderators, so this website working would be entirely dependent upon someone from those lists contributing their “private” data.
Yeah, I think what lemvotes does is: act as an instance to receive posts and comments, but only for the purposes of showing the up/down votes.
Federation is pretty interesting, everything is relative, like:
At least I think that’s how it works, idk I’m not an expert.
Interesting and a bit confusing; I can’t tell if that’s a troubling or exciting result of the nature of the Fediverse. Probably the latter.
yeah check these out for more details, including some info from the lemvotes developer:
Thank you, I’ll do some reading there.
That’s why I work really hard on keeping an impeccable image of degeneracy.
Looking at what I post? That’s a you problem now