Anyone else getting these donation ads? Was it just shoved onto an update by the Lemmy devs, or is this coming from the instance admins? It doesn’t seem to show on clean browser sessions to lemmy.ca

  • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    they basically had to make up a new concern for it, “voting privacy”, but its an excuse that allows for the manipulation of the voting system and lack of accountability for already pseudonymous accounts

    The “private voting” system has been removed months ago. Nowadays Piefed user can either decide to federate their votes (which can then been seen by lemvotes or other tools) or keep them local

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter, the philosophy is still there. I will never expect them to be as transparent as Mbin, who provides voting transparency thus proving that the whole concept of voting privacy is bust and a power play. There is no epidemic of people abusing voting transparency that the “voting privacy” advocates might have argued, never mind that it is also false sense of security when it is completely visible to the server instance admins.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        Piefed’s level of voting transparency is little different to Lemmys now, except for Piefed defederating from lemvotes. I was also present during the discussions about it - and Rimu was very open about why he initially didn’t like public voting. He changed it because of public pressure to do so. That’s not an absence of transparency.

        In any case, even if piefed.social is poor for this. That wouldn’t mean that piefed.zip or piefed.ca would have to follow the same instance policies.