I have been working on Lemvotes, a tool to check who voted on a Lemmy post. In this blog post, I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.
The author has an article about why privacy still matters in the digital age. I’m interested in their arguments about reconciling the two between gathering user votes to stop bad actors and user privacy mattering.
The user votes are already public, this tool only makes it simpler to get the votes. Companies like Meta, for example, could set up a Lemmy instance, not tell anyone they are running it and get all the votes.
The author has an article about why privacy still matters in the digital age. I’m interested in their arguments about reconciling the two between gathering user votes to stop bad actors and user privacy mattering.
The user votes are already public, this tool only makes it simpler to get the votes. Companies like Meta, for example, could set up a Lemmy instance, not tell anyone they are running it and get all the votes.