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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 06:59:03 JST Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “No, ActivityPub votes aren't anonymous”
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/no-activitypub-isnt-anonymous/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #mastodon #privacy
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  Several years ago, I posted this poll on Twitter. Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentIf the recent Twitter hack had exposed they way you voted on every Twitter poll, how would you feel?(There is no suggestion that this has happened, I'm just curious about people's relationships to voting and privacy.)Meh. So what?: (167)167Hmph. That's annoying.: (68)68Umm… […]
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  Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 06:59:01 JST Rimu
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  @julian @Edent Yes, I made anonymous votes on PieFed - details at https://piefed.social/post/205362
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  Julian Fietkau (julian@fietkau.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 06:59:02 JST Julian Fietkau
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  @Edent Good writeup! To add: originating servers could orchestrate anonymous (on the poll author's side) voting by sending votes from a shadow account instead of the user's real account, moving the knowledge of who voted from the pollster's server to the answerer's. On the fediverse, identity is cheap anyway, so there's not much added potential for abuse. @rimu recently did just that in PieFed, in the context of link aggregator votes.
  
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