Stop acting like a redditor.

Whys that? Stability has improved the last few years, and the value cant be beat with UDM pro and even their lowest cost camera options.

They are an excellent value next to most other otpions if youve ever actually implemented more than one solution.

Again if only the instance admin the user is part of can see the count, then that’s essentially “private” as you are trusting that entity already

Until you get rouge instances or rogue admins on seemingly reliable instances willing to fuck with vote numbers for money. A full open system does help with accountability and the ability to discover corruption/deception by admins. I’d rather have the openness than allow instances to create their own fiefdoms with no externalized accountability in an open federated system like this.

The scummier versions of old reddit power mods are probably salivating at having their own instance farms to sell upvote services to advertisers and nefarious groups to with the concept of hiding vote details from downstream instances, so it is easier to obfuscate their activities and more difficult for external analysis to discover and expose.

Keep it all open and just advocate and educate the end users to create anonymized user accounts with unique emails if they want their personal privacy.

Isn’t this an example of how GDPR can be morphed into an exhaustively wild over-reach that exerts control on open systems and end user internet activities despite being hailed as a privacy protector from corporations with teeth that every corp has already worked around?

Does bitcoin’s blockchain ledger violate the GDPR in the same light, where even though a blockchain address is long, it is still identifiable in the same ways a username or even a random email address can by inspecting a data set and running a search for matching entries? If not, couldn’t we just slap the Fediverse data into a blockchain style system for the whole Fediverse that each instance would act as a node on?

/throws gasoline on a fire