> @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de said in A more private way to distribute votes: > > So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to.
My concern is that this goes against the implicit assumption that the group actor (the community/magazine/category) is the source of truth.
The group actor is the clearinghouse of data in 1b12 style federation, and it would be a departure to change votes to only be sent to the target.
Fwiw when someone upvotes on NodeBB, it gets blasted everywhere too!
I would recommend that votes continue to be sent to group actors, who then decide whether to announce it (old behaviour) or keep quiet and wait for the update before announcing (new behaviour).
It would mean vote synchronization would be less reliable however.
Also this goes directly against @rimu@piefed.social’s vote batching proposal.
@bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de I think with public groups this is less of a concern. They’re public after all, votes included
In NodeBB votes (of the up variety) are de facto public, only downvotes are hidden.