I guess that's just something we have to grow to expect from Rimu, after the whole þ fiasco? I can think of lots of valid image uses that have the world "anonymous", such as semi-redacted whistleblowing posts.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the whole þ fiasco

That has since been removed. Yeah, rimu is certainly opinionated and passionate about what he believes in, but has also been pretty receptive to feedback, both from users and from admins (like in the private voting case). Fortunately, there are alternative threadiverse platforms out there for people that want them. Both lemmy and mbin do some stuff better than PieFed, and that's ok. The different projects have maintained working relationships at the dev level to try to make sure interoperability outside the base activitypub spec doesn't completely break (the post-moving feature/FEP was a collaboration between PieFed, lemmy, and NodeBB for example).

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the private voting case

What's this?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Off the top of my head,

Since votes on Lemmy aren't private, anyone can view them. Piefed added anonymized votes (iirc, by sending them from a shadow user with a username that was a hash of the actual voters username), this raised concerns, as vote spam could be harder to spot/stop, so it was removed.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

That got built and implemented before that problem was realized and removed? Damn.

Even so, if the system is tracking votes as reputation, how were the anonymous votes actually tracked? That hash either hid the user or it didn't.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Oh interesting. Anonymous votes does sound cool.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

That's certainly good to hear. But still, it's worth to be cautious around.

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