Yeah, let’s make things less abstract and talk about real examples.

piefed.social is not sending the real voters out. You think that alone should be grounds to get lemmy.ml (your instance) to defederate them. Am I understanding you correctly?

I’m not sure if this has happened yet

I have more than 15 topic-specific instances, and we are in absolute agreement about why this is the best arrangement for group federation.

Also, thank you very much for leading by example. Lets hope the bigger instances also see the value in the initiative.

Yes, but that’s kind of my point?

if downvotes are public, the admin of your instance can see who is downvoting you and then they can take action. If the downvotes are coming from an instance that hides the real user for every vote, you and the admin are SOL.

If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said,

Right. How would you know what “the same user” is? Let’s say that your posts get downvoted at random intervals by 5-10 users in the first 45-120 minutes. They all have different user names. What are you going to do? Create a report against any particular user and hope that the mods look into it?

How would that work? How would an admin separate downvotes from brigaders and legitimate users who happen to downvote a comment?

That creates an incentive for trolls to create accounts at the popular instances using this mechanism in order to destroy their reputation.

Replace “hashing” with “encrypted” (perhaps just using a symmetric key that the admin sets up) and then it gets impossible to know for any outsiders who is the real user behind the vote.

I for one just wish people understood once and for all that anything you do on social media is public.

If you are not comfortable backing up your opinion or action, then don’t do it.

How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?

All you need to understand about MongoDB is that it is webscale, because it doesn’t do joins and it has the most kick-ass benchmarks. And sharding.

Don’t make me explain the joke.

KenobiDB is designed for small-scale applications and prototypes. While it provides excellent performance for most operations, it is not intended to replace full-fledged databases for high-scale or enterprise-level applications for that you should use MongoDB.

Only MongoDB is webscale…

Can you please then explain why you downvoted this post?

Once again, @catloaf@lemm.ee is to be found on the list of downvoters. So, it’s not just what I say or do, even when someone else talks about my project, they are there.

Seriously, what is the problem you have with me?