Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.
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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.
Just make a rainbow table and get the usernames back.
